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From: david@ukma.UUCP (David Herron, NPR Lover)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: subscribers script
Message-ID: <2199@ukma.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 15-Sep-85 23:53:18 EDT
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Posted: Sun Sep 15 23:53:18 1985
Date-Received: Tue, 17-Sep-85 04:47:59 EDT
References: <2161@ukma.UUCP> <2166@ukma.UUCP> <619@decuac.UUCP> <11824@Glacier.ARPA>
Reply-To: david@ukma.UUCP (David Herron, NPR Lover)
Organization: Univ. of KY Mathematical Sciences
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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/.newsrc; then echo %s/.newsrc; fi\n",$6,$6}'  $filefile

Err, uuhh, sorry.  I did it the way I did on purpose.  The original subscribers
program I had did it pretty much the way you did it.  However, at our site
we have some shared accounts.  The people sharing the accounts have their
own "home directory" and are telling rn that DOTDIR is elsewhere than HOME.
So if I just went around looking for $HOME/.newsrc as above I'd miss some.

BTW.  If you didn't notice in the script, I set $BASEDIR (whatever..) to
/usr/user which is actually the base of our user's directory tree.  So
I'm *NOT* searching the entire filesystem.  Not even most of it.  (We have
sources for too many versions of Unix on line for that!)
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