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Newsgroups: comp.sources.misc
From: allbery@uunet.UU.NET (Brandon S. Allbery - comp.sources.misc)
Subject: v09i037: Submission: fixnewsrc
Reply-To: jeff@quark.wv.tek.com
Organization: Tektronix Inc, Wilsonville, Or.
Posting-number: Volume 9, Issue 37
Submitted-by: Jeff Beadles <jeff@quark.wv.tek.com>
Archive-name: fixnewsrc
[ There is no makefile, or readme. This is a short shell script, and there's
"README" information at the top.]
Description:
This program will take the long lines created by rn in a .newsrc file,
and shorten with them. (mark all articles as read)
It takes lines that look like this:
talk.politics.misc! 1-1234,1235-19210,19212,19245-20322
and changes it to:
talk.politics.misc! 1-20322
This helps, as if you try to use 'vi', it chokes on lines longer
than 1024 characters or so. Also, it probably speeds up the
start-up time of rn.
-Jeff
--
Jeff Beadles Tektronix Inc.
jeff@quark.WV.TEK.COM
#--------------------------------CUT HERE-------------------------------------
#! /bin/sh
#
# This is a shell archive. Save this into a file, edit it
# and delete all lines above this comment. Then give this
# file to sh by executing the command "sh file". The files
# will be extracted into the current directory owned by
# you with default permissions.
#
# The files contained herein are:
#
# -rwxr-xr-x 1 jeff 1296 Nov 26 16:55 fixnewsrc
#
echo 'x - fixnewsrc'
if test -f fixnewsrc; then echo 'shar: not overwriting fixnewsrc'; else
sed 's/^X//' << '________This_Is_The_END________' > fixnewsrc
X#!/bin/sh
X## Copyright 1989, Jeff Beadles. Permission is granted to freely distribute.
X## Submittor: Jeff Beadles jeff@quark.WV.TEK.COM
X## Name: fixnewsrc
X## Date: Sun Oct 1 09:25:33 PDT 1989
X## Machine: BSD Unix
X## OS: unix
X## Version: 1.0
X## Synopsis: Fix long lines in .newsrc
X##
X## Description:
X##
X## This program will take the long lines created by rn in a .newsrc
X## file, and shorten with them. (mark all articles as read)
X## It takes lines that look like this:
X##
X## talk.politics.misc! 1-1234,1235-19210,19212,19245-20322
X##
X## and changes it to:
X##
X## talk.politics.misc! 1-20322
X##
X## This helps, as if you try to use 'vi', it chokes on lines longer
X## than 1024 characters or so. Also, it probably speeds up the
X## start-up time of rn.
X##
X## When done, a backup copy of .newsrc is saved in .newsrc.old
X##
X
X## Change directory to the user's home directory
Xcd
X
X## Check for a .newsrc file.
Xif [ ! -f .newsrc ] ; then
X echo "$0: .newsrc not found."
X exit 1
Xfi
X
X## Check for a .newsrc.old file, and remove if needed.
Xif [ -f .newsrc.old ] ; then
X rm -f .newsrc.old
Xfi
X
X## Make that backup first...
Xcp .newsrc .newsrc.old
X
X## There is a space and a tab in the first two []'s below.
Xsed '/!/s/^\([^ ][^ ]*\).*[,-][,-]*\([0-9][0-9]*\)$/\1 1-\2/' \
X < .newsrc.old > .newsrc
Xexit 0
________This_Is_The_END________
if test `wc -c < fixnewsrc` -ne 1296; then
echo 'shar: fixnewsrc was damaged during transit (should have been 1296 bytes)'
fi
fi ; : end of overwriting check
exit 0