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Annotation of 43BSD/contrib/news/misc/restore.active, revision 1.1

1.1     ! root        1: : recreate the active file from readers .newsrc files
        !             2: : and from the existing articles
        !             3: 
        !             4: lib=${1-/usr/lib/news}
        !             5: tmp=/tmp/$$
        !             6: : Find the highest numbered articles from the .newsrcs
        !             7: cat `sed 's/[^:]*:[^:]*:[^:]*:[^:]*:[^:]*://
        !             8: s/:.*//' /etc/passwd | sort -u | sed 's;$;/.newsrc;' ` 2>/dev/null  | 
        !             9: sed '/:/!d
        !            10: s/:.*[,-]/ /
        !            11: s/: */ /'  >$tmp
        !            12: : in case there are groups no-one reads, look in the list of newsgroups
        !            13: sed 's/[       ].*/ 1/' $lib/newsgroups >>$tmp
        !            14: sort  +0 -1 +1nr  $tmp | sort -m +0u -1 | sed 's/$/ 00001 y/
        !            15: /^fa/s/y$/n/' >$lib/active
        !            16: : finally, scan the spool directory and fix up the active file.
        !            17: $lib/expire -u
        !            18: rm -f $tmp

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