v09i037: Submission: fixnewsrc

[Brandon S. Allbery - comp.sources.misc]

Posting-number: Volume 9, Issue 37
Submitted-by: Jeff Beadles <jeff at quark.wv.tek.com>
Archive-name: fixnewsrc

[ There is no makefile, or readme.  This is a short shell script, and there's
  "README" information at the top.]

Description:
This program will take the long lines created by rn in a .newsrc file,
and shorten with them.  (mark all articles as read)
It takes lines that look like this:

	talk.politics.misc! 1-1234,1235-19210,19212,19245-20322

and changes it to:

	talk.politics.misc! 1-20322

This helps, as if you try to use 'vi', it chokes on lines longer
than 1024 characters or so.  Also, it probably speeds up the
start-up time of rn.


	-Jeff
-- 
Jeff Beadles		Tektronix Inc.
jeff at quark.WV.TEK.COM


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#! /bin/sh
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# and delete all lines above this comment.  Then give this
# file to sh by executing the command "sh file".  The files
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# you with default permissions.
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# The files contained herein are:
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# -rwxr-xr-x  1 jeff         1296 Nov 26 16:55 fixnewsrc
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echo 'x - fixnewsrc'
if test -f fixnewsrc; then echo 'shar: not overwriting fixnewsrc'; else
sed 's/^X//' << '________This_Is_The_END________' > fixnewsrc
X#!/bin/sh
X## Copyright 1989, Jeff Beadles.  Permission is granted to freely distribute.
X## Submittor:	Jeff Beadles   jeff at quark.WV.TEK.COM
X## Name:	fixnewsrc
X## Date:	Sun Oct  1 09:25:33 PDT 1989
X## Machine:	BSD Unix
X## OS:		unix
X## Version:	1.0
X## Synopsis:	Fix long lines in .newsrc
X##
X## Description:
X##
X##	This program will take the long lines created by rn in a .newsrc
X##	file, and shorten with them.  (mark all articles as read)
X##	It takes lines that look like this:
X##
X##  talk.politics.misc! 1-1234,1235-19210,19212,19245-20322
X##
X##	and changes it to:
X##
X##  talk.politics.misc! 1-20322
X##
X##	This helps, as if you try to use 'vi', it chokes on lines longer
X##	than 1024 characters or so.  Also, it probably speeds up the
X##	start-up time of rn.
X##
X##	When done, a backup copy of .newsrc is saved in .newsrc.old
X##
X
X## Change directory to the user's home directory
Xcd
X
X## Check for a .newsrc file.
Xif [ ! -f .newsrc ] ; then
X	echo "$0: .newsrc not found."
X	exit 1
Xfi
X
X## Check for a .newsrc.old file, and remove if needed.
Xif [ -f .newsrc.old ] ; then
X	rm -f .newsrc.old
Xfi
X
X## Make that backup first...
Xcp .newsrc .newsrc.old
X
X## There is a space and a tab in the first two []'s below.
Xsed '/!/s/^\([^ 	][^ 	]*\).*[,-][,-]*\([0-9][0-9]*\)$/\1 1-\2/' \
X	< .newsrc.old > .newsrc
Xexit 0
________This_Is_The_END________
if test `wc -c < fixnewsrc` -ne 1296; then
	echo 'shar: fixnewsrc was damaged during transit (should have been 1296 bytes)'
fi
fi		; : end of overwriting check
exit 0