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From: emv@fleetwood.cc.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti)
Newsgroups: alt.config,news.config
Subject: Re: The size of the 'alt' subnet
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Date: 2 Mar 88 03:25:30 GMT
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In article <5184@swan.ulowell.edu> page@swan.ulowell.edu (Bob Page) writes:
>..Bob
>
>PS Here's how I got the list of hosts based on Path: lines.
>
>#!/bin/sh
>cd /usr/spool/news/alt
>egrep "^Path: " */* |
>	cut -d\  -f2 |
>	awk -F! '{ for (i = 1; i < NF; i++) print $i }' $* |
>	tr A-Z a-z |
>	sort |
>	uniq
>-- 

If you have MH handy, it's relatively easy to generate the path info
for a newsgroup.  In my MH directory (~/Mail) I've linked Alt to
/usr/spool/news/alt, Comp to /usr/spool/news/comp, etc.  Then a line
like this:                                                     

       scan +Alt/sources last:20 -format "%(size)\t%{Path}"

generates size and path information for further munging by awk.

--Ed
Edward Vielmetti, U of Michigan mail group.