root@equinox.UUCP (Super user) (12/21/90)
Hi, I wanted to post a followup article on a question I asked on
scanning /usr/spool/news directories for articles of interest. I'd
like to thank everyone for replying by email to me. The solutions:
"Use NN" -- I think this is available on SUNS. I'm using Xenix 2.3.2.
"Grep for the subject in a shell line..." -- Several people
"Use
find /usr/spool/news/comp/unix -type f -exec egrep 'regexp' {} /dev/null \;
I liked this powerful one-liner submitted by Michael Gengenback of FORWISS
Larry Wall lwall@jpl-decvax.jpl.nasa.gov sent me a PERL program that "scans all newsgroups for interesting
strings." and then prints a message to the terminal although "other behaviours
are of course possible...". I know PERL is on uunet!, how do you get it??
There's so many news articles, I think there is a definite need to be able to
filter just subjects of interests -- otherwise you could spend your whole day
reading news.
--Wolf Kozelcedman@golem.ps.uci.edu (Carl Edman) (12/22/90)
In article <6@equinox.UUCP> root@equinox.UUCP (Super user) writes:
Hi, I wanted to post a followup article on a question I asked on
scanning /usr/spool/news directories for articles of interest. I'd
like to thank everyone for replying by email to me. The solutions:
"Use NN" -- I think this is available on SUNS. I'm using Xenix 2.3.2.
"Grep for the subject in a shell line..." -- Several people
"Use
find /usr/spool/news/comp/unix -type f -exec egrep 'regexp' {} /dev/null \;
I liked this powerful one-liner submitted by Michael Gengenback of FORWISS
Of course, if you wanted a really powerful oneliner with the same
functionality, which is several times faster , you would use:
find /usr/spool/news/comp/unix -type f -print | xargs egrep 'regexp'
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