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From: bill@twwells.com (T. William Wells)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: C News log file
Message-ID: <1989Jun30.153210.21984@twwells.com>
Date: 30 Jun 89 15:32:10 GMT
References: <2228@vicom.COM> <1989Jun20.211939.7835@utzoo.uucp> <4657@ficc.uu.net> <89Jun27.222123edt.11708@neat.ai.toronto.edu>
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In article <89Jun27.222123edt.11708@neat.ai.toronto.edu> moraes@ai.toronto.edu (Mark Moraes) writes:
: >     What newsgroups it was in.
:
: Nope.
:
: In the history file - do a lookup by message id. (What, you don't have
: cut and paste ? :-)

Actually, cut, grep (or whatever your favorite selection tool is),
sort, and join are the right tools for this.

Cut out the fields you want from the two files, grep out lines that
are not of interest, sort by message id, and join on the message id.
The result is a file that contains the interesting fields from both
the log and history files. And you don't have to keep it around after
you've got your stats.

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