Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!mcvax!ukc!dcl-cs!stephen From: stephen@comp.lancs.ac.uk (Stephen J. Muir) Newsgroups: news.admin Subject: deciding how much news to expire to free disk space Message-ID: <143@dcl-csvax.comp.lancs.ac.uk> Date: Sat, 10-Jan-87 03:32:11 EST Article-I.D.: dcl-csva.143 Posted: Sat Jan 10 03:32:11 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 11-Jan-87 02:41:19 EST Reply-To: stephen@comp.lancs.ac.uk (Stephen J. Muir) Distribution: world Organization: Department of Computing at Lancaster University, UK. Lines: 31 Sometimes, when my spool area is in danger of filling up, I decide to do an expire run with less than the default number of days. The problem of how many days worth of news to keep requires a time-consuming examination of the history file. So here is a wee awk script to print out the number of news articles received on each date in the history file: ----------------------------------- Cut Here ---------------------------------- #! /bin/sh exec awk ' BEGIN { FS = "\t" } { if ($3 == "" || $3 == "cancelled") break date = $2 while (substr (date, 1, 1) == " ") date = substr (date, 2) date = substr (date, 1, 8) if (count [date] == 0) sort [++number] = date ++count [date] } END { for (i = 1; i <= number; ++i) { date = sort [i] printf "%s %s\n", date, count [date] } } ' < /usr/lib/news/history ----------------------------------- Cut Here ---------------------------------- -- EMAIL: stephen@comp.lancs.ac.uk | Post: University of Lancaster, UUCP: ...!mcvax!ukc!dcl-cs!stephen | Department of Computing, Phone: +44 524 65201 Ext. 4120 | Bailrigg, Lancaster, UK. Project:Alvey ECLIPSE Distribution | LA1 4YR