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commit 89dbf565de7b980d2b336c58633b7a27681adaf5 |
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parent cdb8f7feb135adf6f18e389b4bbf47886089474a |
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Author: Hiltjo Posthuma <[email protected]> |
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Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2023 16:37:21 +0100 |
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README: update dependency information for xargs for sfeed_update |
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Remove the parallel xargs example because it is now the default. |
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M README | 58 ++---------------------------… |
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1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 56 deletions(-) |
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diff --git a/README b/README |
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@@ -117,6 +117,8 @@ Optional dependencies |
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used by sfeed_update(1). If the text in your RSS/Atom feeds are already UTF-8 |
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encoded then you don't need this. For a minimal iconv implementation: |
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https://git.etalabs.net/cgit/noxcuse/tree/src/iconv.c |
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+- xargs with support for the -P and -0 option, |
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+ used by sfeed_update(1). |
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- mandoc for documentation: https://mdocml.bsd.lv/ |
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- curses (typically ncurses), otherwise see minicurses.h, |
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used by sfeed_curses(1). |
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@@ -706,62 +708,6 @@ sfeedrc file and change the curl options "-L --max-redirs … |
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- - - |
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-Shellscript to update feeds in parallel more efficiently using xargs -P. |
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- |
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-It creates a queue of the feeds with its settings, then uses xargs to process |
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-them in parallel using the common, but non-POSIX -P option. This is more |
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-efficient than the more portable solution in sfeed_update which can stall a |
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-batch of $maxjobs in the queue if one item is slow. |
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- |
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-sfeed_update_xargs shellscript: |
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- #!/bin/sh |
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- # update feeds, merge with old feeds using xargs in parallel mode (non… |
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- |
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- # include script and reuse its functions, but do not start main(). |
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- SFEED_UPDATE_INCLUDE="1" . sfeed_update |
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- # load config file, sets $config. |
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- loadconfig "$1" |
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- |
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- # process a single feed. |
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- # args are: config, tmpdir, name, feedurl, basesiteurl, encoding |
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- if [ "${SFEED_UPDATE_CHILD}" = "1" ]; then |
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- sfeedtmpdir="$2" |
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- _feed "$3" "$4" "$5" "$6" |
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- exit $? |
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- fi |
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- |
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- # ...else parent mode: |
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- |
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- # feed(name, feedurl, basesiteurl, encoding) |
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- feed() { |
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- # workaround: *BSD xargs doesn't handle empty fields in the mi… |
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- name="${1:-$$}" |
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- feedurl="${2:-http://}" |
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- basesiteurl="${3:-${feedurl}}" |
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- encoding="$4" |
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- |
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- printf '%s\0%s\0%s\0%s\0%s\0%s\0' "${config}" "${sfeedtmpdir}"… |
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- "${name}" "${feedurl}" "${basesiteurl}" "${encoding}" |
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- } |
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- |
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- # fetch feeds and store in temporary directory. |
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- sfeedtmpdir="$(mktemp -d '/tmp/sfeed_XXXXXX')" || exit 1 |
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- mkdir -p "${sfeedtmpdir}/feeds" |
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- touch "${sfeedtmpdir}/ok" || exit 1 |
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- # make sure path exists. |
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- mkdir -p "${sfeedpath}" |
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- # print feeds for parallel processing with xargs. |
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- feeds | SFEED_UPDATE_CHILD="1" xargs -r -0 -P "${maxjobs}" -L 6 "$(rea… |
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- statuscode=$? |
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- # check error exit status indicator for parallel jobs. |
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- test -f "${sfeedtmpdir}/ok" || statuscode=1 |
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- # cleanup temporary files etc. |
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- cleanup |
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- exit ${statuscode} |
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-- - - |
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- |
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Shellscript to handle URLs and enclosures in parallel using xargs -P. |
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This can be used to download and process URLs for downloading podcasts, |
