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From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert)
Newsgroups: news.software.b,news.software.nntp,news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: Need to send articles to a new site
Message-ID: <1990Dec14.192717.21836@mp.cs.niu.edu>
Date: 14 Dec 90 19:27:17 GMT
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In article <1990Dec14.162617.5428@ssd.kodak.com> dcox@tweety.ssd.kodak.com (Don Cox (253-7121)) writes:
>How do I send all of the articles available in a select newsgroup to
>...
>newsgroup to them.  I can (and did) create a file called 
>machinename.abc.def.com in /var/spool/news/out.going
>and added a line for each article ...  such as:
>
>/usr/spool/news/ours/general/1
>/usr/spool/news/ours/general/2
>...
>/usr/spool/news/ours/general/8
>etc.
>
>I tried a wildcard (*) instead of an article number, but it didn't
>work.  How does one send hundreds of articles to a site without
>typing in hundreds of entries?
>
 Using the cshell, I would just do something like:

  foreach article ( [0-9]* )
  echo $cwd/$article >> $batchfile
  end

 Similar command sequences exist for other reasonable shells.

 Combining this with find, and a relatively simple sed filter
you should be able to do the whole news spooling directory with
very little effort.
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  Neil W. Rickert, Computer Science               <rickert@cs.niu.edu>
  Northern Illinois Univ.
  DeKalb, IL 60115.                                  +1-815-753-6940