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- Article 2755 of net.sources:
- Path: brl-smoke!brl-adm!rutgers!clyde!watmath!sunybcs!uggworek
- From: uggworek@sunybcs.UUCP (Don Gworek)
- Newsgroups: net.sources
- Subject: cn -- a checknews script
- Message-ID: <1549@sunybcs.UUCP>
- Date: 1 Dec 86 03:31:17 GMT
- Sender: nobody@sunybcs.UUCP
- Reply-To: uggworek@sunybcs.UUCP (Don Gworek)
- Distribution: na
- Organization: SUNY/Buffalo Computer Science
- Lines: 31
- Keywords: awk, rn
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- Here's a cute little shell script that lists available news
- articles in multicolumn form, such as:
-
- [31] comp.lang.c [ 1] wny.yumyum [ 2] mod.sources
- [ 4] comp.unix.questio [ 1] comp.unix.wizards [ 1] mod.computers.sun
- [ 2] mod.computers.wor
-
-
- The script uses rn's -c and -s options. It's based on an
- alias by Jeff Forys at CU/Boulder.
-
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- #! /bin/sh
-
- # Sun Nov 30 22:34:48 EST 1986 (...!sunybcs!gworek / ...!boulder!forys)
- #
- # cn - Check for available news, multicolumn style.
- #
-
- rn -s250 -c | \
- awk '{ \
- printf "[%2.2s] %-17.17s ", $5, $4; \
- if ((NR % 3) == 0) \
- print ""; \
- } END { \
- if ((NR) && (NR % 3)) \
- print ""; \
- }'
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