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From: geoff@desint.UUCP (Geoff Kuenning)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Another way to count news articles by date
Message-ID: <286@desint.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 15-Jan-87 03:01:44 EST
Article-I.D.: desint.286
Posted: Thu Jan 15 03:01:44 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 16-Jan-87 04:12:41 EST
Reply-To: geoff@desint.UUCP (Geoff Kuenning)
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>From: stephen@comp.lancs.ac.uk (Stephen J. Muir)
>Sometimes, when my spool area is in danger of filling up, I decide to do an
>expire run with less than the default number of days.  The problem of how many
>days worth of news to keep requires a time-consuming examination of the history
>file.  So here is a wee awk script to print out the number of news articles
>received on each date in the history file:

I liked the idea, but found the script slow.  Here's what I came up with:

    sed 's/[^\t]*\t\([A-Za-z]* *[0-9]*\).*/\1/' /usr/lib/news/history \
      | uniq -c

(for posting, I have replaced tabs with "\t".  You should turn them back
into tabs before trying the script out.
-- 

	Geoff Kuenning
	{hplabs,ihnp4}!trwrb!desint!geoff