From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!floyd!trb Newsgroups: net.news Title: followup to floyd.508 re removing garbage from .newsrc Article-I.D.: floyd.553 Posted: Thu Sep 16 22:04:34 1982 Received: Fri Sep 17 03:05:09 1982 I posted news saying that $ grep -v " n" .newsrc would print .newsrc with extraneous net.jokes net.general: 1 lines removed. It has been pointed out that if you have an options line which specifies newsgroups: options -n net.all !net.jokes then the grep -v would delete that options line. My options -n all !foo !bar caused me not to see this problem, so make it: $ grep -v "net.jokes net.general: 1" .newsrc Andy Tannenbaum Bell Labs Whippany, NJ (201) 386-6491