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From: heiby@cuae2.UUCP (Heiby)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: subscribers script
Message-ID: <451@cuae2.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 16-Sep-85 11:08:14 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep 16 11:08:14 1985
Date-Received: Tue, 17-Sep-85 05:50:19 EDT
References: <2161@ukma.UUCP> <2166@ukma.UUCP> <619@decuac.UUCP> <11824@Glacier.ARPA>
Reply-To: heiby@cuae2.UUCP (Heiby)
Organization: AT&T, /app/eng, Lisle, IL
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In article <11824@Glacier.ARPA> reid@Glacier.UUCP (Brian Reid) writes:
>Oh come on, people! Here is how to find the .newsrc files without searching
>the entire file system:
>
>awk -F: '{printf "if test -f %s/. ... etc.

This message (and I believe at least one of the preceding ones) ignores
the fact that the NEWSRC environment variable can be used to move the
.newsrc around.  It doesn't have to reside in the user's home directory.
Of course, if the user changes the file name as well as the directory then
there's not much hope of finding it.
-- 
Ron Heiby {NAC|ihnp4}!cuae2!heiby   Moderator: mod.newprod & mod.unix
AT&T-IS, /app/eng, Lisle, IL	(312) 810-6109
"No; my legs are written in a functional programming language." (J. McKie)