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NNGREP(1)						      General Commands Manual							 NNGREP(1)

NAME

       nngrep - grep for news group names (nn)

SYNOPSIS

       nngrep [ -ainprsu ] [ -l ] [ pattern ]

DESCRIPTION

       nngrep can print various selections of the available news groups.

       Without	options,  nngrep will list all currently subscribed newsgroups whose name matches any of the specified patterns.  If no pattern is
       specified, all subscribed groups will be listed.

       The selection of news groups against which the patterns are matches, and subsequently printed by nngrep can be limited  or  expanded  using
       the following command line options and arguments:

       -a     Use both subscribed and unsubscribed groups.  Overrides the -u option.

       -i     Use only ignored groups, i.e. which are not in the presentation sequence.

       -n     Use  only new groups.  Notice that nn considers a group to be new until you have read at least one article in the group, or you have
	      unsubscribed to the group.  This means that even reasonable active news groups may remain "new" for quite some time if it only  con-
	      tains articles which are cross-posted to other groups which occur earlier in your presentation sequence.

       -p     Use only groups with unread (pending) articles.

       -r     Use only read groups, i.e. without unread articles.

       -s     Use only groups which are in the presentation sequence.

       -u     Use only unsubscribed groups.

       These options can be combined if they don't logically exclude each other.

       For example, to get the names of all "source" groups, you can use the command
	    nngrep source

       You can use this to read a specific subset of news groups with nn; for example
	    nn `nngrep -sp source`

LONG LISTING

       A long listing of the matched groups can be requested with the -l option.  It will include the following information:

       SUBSCR	  Specifies whether the group is subscribed or not (yes/no).
       NEW	  Specifies whether the group is new or not (yes/no).
       UNREAD	  Shows the number of unread articles in the group (if any).
       SEQUENCE   Shows the group's index in the presentation sequence.
       GROUP	  The name of the group.

FILES

       ~/.newsrc    The record of read articles
       ~/.nn/init   The presentation sequence

SEE ALSO

       nn(1), nncheck(1), nngoback(1), nngrab(1), nnpost(1), nntidy(1)
       nnadmin(1M), nnusage(1M), nnmaster(8)

AUTHOR

       Kim F. Storm, Texas Instruments A/S, Denmark
       E-mail: storm@texas.dk

4th Berkeley Distribution					    Release 6.6 							 NNGREP(1)

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NNPOST(1)						      General Commands Manual							 NNPOST(1)

NAME

       nnpost - post news articles (nn)

SYNOPSIS

       nnpost [ -dksy string ] [ -f file ] [ -p ] [ group... ]

DESCRIPTION

       nnpost is used to post new articles using nn's normal interface, but without entering nn in reading mode.

       When started, it reads the init file and then directly executes nn's :post command.

       It will prompt for a (comma-separated) list of news groups, the article subject, a list of keywords, a summary, and the distribution of the
       article.  Each of these prompts can also be supplied via command line options or arguments as described below.

       When prompted for the "Newsgroup:", entering a ? as the first key will cause nnpost to list all the known news groups and their purpose (if
       this  information is available).  You can also enter / followed by a word or regular expression which will cause nnpost to produce a (much)
       shorter listing only containing the groups whose name and/or purpose description matches  the  regular  expression.   When  paging  through
       either list, you can enter q to quit the listing.

       If  a  source  file  is	specified with -f it will be used as the initial article body.	If the -p option is also specified, the article is
       posted directly without editing.

       nnpost can be used to do unattended postings if sufficient arguments are provided on the command line to build the header and the  body	of
       the  article.   The  required  arguments  are:  one or more newsgroups, a subject (-s), a source file (-f), a distribution (-d), and the -p
       option.	Other fields which are not specified (e.g. keywords) will not be included in the header.  The contents of the news-header variable
       in the init file will be included in the header.

OPTIONS

       -d distribution
	      Use the specified distribution for the article.

       -k "keywords"
	      Associate the specified keywords with the article.

       -s "subject"
	      Use the specified subject for the new article.

       -y "summary"
	      Include the given summary in the article header.

       -f file
	      Read the article body from the specified file.

       -p     Post the article specified with -f without editing.

FILES

       ~/.nn/init   The control variables for nnpost.

SEE ALSO

       nn(1)

AUTHOR

       Kim F. Storm, Texas Instruments A/S, Denmark
       E-mail: storm@texas.dk

4th Berkeley Distribution					    Release 6.6 							 NNPOST(1)
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