Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!mcvax!dik From: dik@cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter) Newsgroups: alt.sources.d Subject: Re: .newsrc file fixer Keywords: rn, news, long lines Message-ID: <8437@boring.cwi.nl> Date: 2 Oct 89 20:30:50 GMT References: <4784@orca.WV.TEK.COM> Organization: CWI, Amsterdam Lines: 19 In article <4784@orca.WV.TEK.COM> jeff@quark.WV.TEK.COM (Jeff Beadles) writes: > > This is a little script that I tossed together to massage my .newsrc. I tried > to edit it with 'vi' to move the order of some of the groups around, and clean > it up a bit. And some script that will fold long lines. There is however a much easier procedure to get at (nearly) the same result: cp .newsrc .newsrc.old sed -e '/!/d' .newsrc.old >.newsrc This will throw away all lines mentioning groups you are not subscribed to (and those are presumably also the long lines). Net effect: shorter .newsrc, faster rn startup, no problems editing .newsrc. Note that sed will choke if your .newsrc contains lines longer than 4000 chars! -- dik t. winter, cwi, amsterdam, nederland INTERNET : dik@cwi.nl BITNET/EARN: dik@mcvax