NNTIDY(1) UNIX System V (Release 6.5) NNTIDY(1)
NAME
nntidy - tidy your personal .newsrc file
SYNOPSIS
nntidy [ -aciNQrsuv ] [ group ]...
DESCRIPTION
nntidy will clean out non-existing groups, adjust obviously
wrong article numbers, and remove badly formed lines from
your .newsrc file.
It may optionally remove ignored groups, unsubscribed
groups, and groups which are not part of your presentation
sequence or the groups specified on the command line.
You should run nntidy if your rc file has been corrupted for
some reason.
OPTIONS
-a Equivalent to -cisu.
-c Remove unrecognized lines. This will also remove the
`options' line used by some older news readers, such as
readnews(1)-i Remove entries for groups which are ignored in the
database, e.g. entries marked with `X' in the GROUPS
file.
-r Remove entries for unsubscribed groups.
-s Remove entries which are not included in the group
presentation sequence defined in the init file. If one
or more groups are specified on the command line,
entries not matched by these groups (and their
subgroups etc) will be removed.
Notice that depending on how you construct the
presentation sequence, this may cause unsubscribed
groups to be removed from .newsrc, but this will not
normally happen.
-u Truncate entries for unsubscribed groups, by removing
the article numbers and leaving only the news group
name and the `!' mark.
-v Verbose operation. Reports each change made to the
.newsrc file.
-N No update mode. The requested operations are
performed, but the result is not written back to disk.
This can be used with the -v option to see whether
tidying is required.
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NNTIDY(1) UNIX System V (Release 6.5) NNTIDY(1)-Q Quiet operation. The version information is not
printed.
FILES
~/.newsrc The record of read articles
~/.newsrc.tidy The original rc file before tidy
SEE ALSO
nn(1), nncheck(1), nngoback(1), nngrab(1), nngrep(1),
nnpost(1)nnadmin(1M), nnusage(1M), nnmaster(8)
AUTHOR
Kim F. Storm, Texas Instruments A/S, Denmark
E-mail: storm@texas.dk
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