Article 2755 of net.sources:
Path: brl-smoke!brl-adm!rutgers!clyde!watmath!sunybcs!uggworek
From:
[email protected] (Don Gworek)
Newsgroups: net.sources
Subject: cn -- a checknews script
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Date: 1 Dec 86 03:31:17 GMT
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Organization: SUNY/Buffalo Computer Science
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Keywords: awk, rn
Here's a cute little shell script that lists available news
articles in multicolumn form, such as:
[31] comp.lang.c [ 1] wny.yumyum [ 2] mod.sources
[ 4] comp.unix.questio [ 1] comp.unix.wizards [ 1] mod.computers.sun
[ 2] mod.computers.wor
The script uses rn's -c and -s options. It's based on an
alias by Jeff Forys at CU/Boulder.
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#! /bin/sh
# Sun Nov 30 22:34:48 EST 1986 (...!sunybcs!gworek / ...!boulder!forys)
#
# cn - Check for available news, multicolumn style.
#
rn -s250 -c | \
awk '{ \
printf "[%2.2s] %-17.17s ", $5, $4; \
if ((NR % 3) == 0) \
print ""; \
} END { \
if ((NR) && (NR % 3)) \
print ""; \
}'
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