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From: jiii@visdc.UUCP (John E Van Deusen III)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: rn as a batch process
Summary: An alternative sh(1) script
Message-ID: <694@visdc.UUCP>
Date: 16 Dec 89 21:12:00 GMT
References: <610@dftsrv.gsfc.nasa.gov>
Reply-To: jiii@visdc.UUCP (John E Van Deusen III)
Organization: VI Software Development, Boise, Idaho
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In article <610@dftsrv.gsfc.nasa.gov>
packer@chrpuser.gsfc.nasa.gov () writes:
> I would like to run "rn" as a batch process to get all the
> messages from selected newsgroups into a file or files ...

I have written a utility shell script that uses a history file and
some invocations of find(1), grep(1), xargs(1), etc., to facilitate
the one-time processing of each file from a set of News groups by a
user-specified program.

I use it to mail copies of articles in selected News groups to my
buddies who don't have News software, but it could be used for about
anything.  If you want a copy of the shar file, send an e-mail reply
to this article, and say:

Send prnews.shar

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John E Van Deusen III, PO Box 9283, Boise, ID  83707, (208) 343-1865

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