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From: reid@Glacier.ARPA (Brian Reid)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: subscribers script
Message-ID: <11824@Glacier.ARPA>
Date: Sun, 15-Sep-85 01:29:11 EDT
Article-I.D.: Glacier.11824
Posted: Sun Sep 15 01:29:11 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 16-Sep-85 00:15:56 EDT
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Reply-To: reid@Glacier.UUCP (Brian Reid)
Organization: Stanford University, Computer Systems Lab
Lines: 11
Summary: cheap and easy way to find all the .newsrc files

Oh come on, people! Here is how to find the .newsrc files without searching
the entire file system:

awk -F: '{printf "if test -f %s/.newsrc; then echo %s/.newsrc; fi\n",$6,$6}' </etc/passwd | sh | sort -u > $filefile

Before you go saying that it ought to be done using ls instead of all those
test -f commands, let me remind you that there is a limit to the size of
argv on an exec, and glacier's /etc/passwd has enough entries to tickle it.
-- 
	Brian Reid	decwrl!glacier!reid
	Stanford	reid@SU-Glacier.ARPA


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