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From: daved@physiol.su.oz (Dave Davey)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc,news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: My script for mapfiles/pathalias updating
Summary: pubindex(1) them too
Keywords: pathalias, maps, update, script
Message-ID: <279@physiol.su.oz>
Date: 4 Jul 88 01:53:42 GMT
References: <957@flatline.UUCP> <320@elan.UUCP> <471@unisv.UUCP> <3386@rpp386.UUCP>
Organization: Physiology Dept., Univ. of Sydney, NSW, Australia
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In article <3386@rpp386.UUCP>, jfh@rpp386.UUCP (John F. Haugh II) writes:
> In article <471@unisv.UUCP> vanpelt@unisv.UUCP (Mike Van Pelt) writes:
> >In article <957@flatline.UUCP> erict@flatline.UUCP (j eric townsend) writes:
> in the shell script which i use to run expire, i copy the maps out of
> comp.mail.maps, unshar them
We run pubindex(1) on the u.* files to support examining them with lookbib(1).
Searching is then very fast, and these utilities are better suited to the
multiline records than is grep(1).