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From: root@conexch.UUCP (Larry Dighera)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Unpacking and storing the Maps
Message-ID: <197@conexch.UUCP>
Date: 19 Feb 88 18:05:49 GMT
References: <494@wa3wbu.UUCP>
Reply-To: root@conexch.UUCP (Larry Dighera)
Organization: The Consultants' Exchange, Orange County, CA.  (714) 842-6348
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In article <494@wa3wbu.UUCP> john@wa3wbu.UUCP (John Gayman) writes:
>
>     Can anyone recommend a script/program to capture & store the USENET
>maps as they come across from News ?  Having to go through and manually
>save and unshar each one takes an eternity.  Also, Im not real familiar

Here is a copy of the shell script that I use to keep the maps up to date.
It makes the presumption that the later articles superceed older ones.
Parsing the Superceeds line is left as an exercise for the reader :-).
It runs interactively, and asks for conformation before overwriting old
maps.


:
#
#	This script will assist in keeping the UUCP maps up to date.
#	It assumes that you keep your maps compressed in their own
#	subdirectory and that later article numbers superseed eariler
#	map-articles.
#	
#	Copyright Dighera Data Services Sat Jan  9 09:02:27 PST 1988
#

MAPDIR=/root/Maps		# This is where the UUCP maps reside
NEWSDIR=/usenet/usenet/spool/news/comp/mail/maps 	# Raw maps here
export MAPDIR NEWSDIR

cd $NEWSDIR
set `ls`
if [ $# -gt 0 ]
then
	cp * $MAPDIR && rm *
else 
	echo "$0: No new maps to process"
	exit
fi

cd $MAPDIR
for I
do
	sed '1,11d' $I > $0.tmp && (rm $I; sh $0.tmp)
done
rm $0.tmp

for i in `ls *[!Z]`
do
if [ -f ${i}.Z ]
then
	echo "Over write: \n `ls -log ${i}.Z`"
	echo "With: \n `ls -log $i` ?"
	read CHOICE
	case $CHOICE in
		[yY]*) rm ${i}.Z; compress $i; ls -log ${i}.Z;echo;;
		*) continue;;
	esac
else
	compress $i
fi
done

======================  end of code  =============================
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