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From: lmc@denelcor.UUCP (Lyle McElhaney)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: Periodic automatic recreation of groups
Message-ID: <498@denelcor.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 9-Jul-84 10:22:04 EDT
Article-I.D.: denelcor.498
Posted: Mon Jul  9 10:22:04 1984
Date-Received: Wed, 11-Jul-84 00:34:36 EDT
References: <186@callan.UUCP>
Organization: Denelcor, Aurora, CO
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Someone did send out a script just last week to compare the "official" list
with the active list at a site. Its small enough that I'll include it
here (sorry, I don't know who originated it):

> sed -e '1,/----------/d' \
>         -e '/^$/d' \
>         -e '/^[\* A-Z-]/d' \
>         -e '/^          /d' \
>         -e 's/^ \(.*\)/\1/' \
>         -e 's/^\(.*\)   .*/\1/' | sort >/tmp/act$$
> awk '{print $1}' /usr/lib/news/active | sort | diff -b - /tmp/act$$ > /tmp/act$
> echo "active newsgroups not in local active file:"
> fgrep ">" /tmp/act$
> echo "defunct newsgroups still in active file (also local groups):"
> fgrep "<" /tmp/act$
> rm /tmp/act$$


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		Lyle McElhaney
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