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From: lvc@cbnews.att.com (Lawrence V. Cipriani)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: Rebuild a .newsrc file
Summary: awk script
Keywords: news
Message-ID: <1990Oct3.014039.27275@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 3 Oct 90 01:40:39 GMT
References: <2713@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Organization: Ideology Busters Inc.
Lines: 19

In article <2713@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>, davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr) writes:
> 
>   Someone asked about rebuilding a .newsrc file.

Here's a pretty quick one in awk.

# this will create a .newsrc for folks showing that they've suscribed
# to all groups and haven't read anything.  This keeps rn from bothering
# the new user with hundereds of "... not in .newsrc.  Add[y/n]? " messages.
awk '{ 
        if($3 > 0) {
                printf("%s: 1-%d\n", $1, $3-1);
        } else {
                printf("%s: \n", $1);
        }
}' /usr/lib/news/active > .newsrc
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