Rebuild a .newsrc file

[Lawrence V. Cipriani]

In article <2713 at crdos1.crd.ge.COM>, davidsen at crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr) writes:
> 
>   Someone asked about rebuilding a .newsrc file.

Here's a pretty quick one in awk.

# this will create a .newsrc for folks showing that they've suscribed
# to all groups and haven't read anything.  This keeps rn from bothering
# the new user with hundereds of "... not in .newsrc.  Add[y/n]? " messages.
awk '{ 
        if($3 > 0) {
                printf("%s: 1-%d\n", $1, $3-1);
        } else {
                printf("%s: \n", $1);
        }
}' /usr/lib/news/active > .newsrc
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