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Annotation of 43BSD/contrib/news/misc/restore.active, revision 1.1.1.1

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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