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Dear matrixmadhan

I still have issue due to unconventional data file:

Sometimes: it has more than 3 lines; it could be 4 or 5 line after the first line.

Is there a way that we can pick up the subline (three line down but to the last line before M 47) for example the data below:

ct=$(($subline + 3))

M 47 HIS:LOT 32 DUTY 2 MIKE, FINISHED
MIKE ACTIVE STATUS
47TASK YES GOOD
100TASK NO GOOD
My 4 th LINE
MY 5 th LINE

M 47 HIS:LOT 1 DUTY 1 MIKE, FINISHED
MIKE ACTIVE STATUS
24TASK YES GOOD
100TASK NO GOOD

M 47 HIS:LOT 59 DUTY 2 MIKE, FINISHED
MIKE ACTIVE STATUS
123TASK YES GOOD
100TASK NO GOOD
My 4 th LINE
MY 5 th LINE
My 6 th LINE

Also I want to save the data to the new file (filename2); I tried:

echo "" > filename2

I got a empty file.

Please advise! Many thanks!
 
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active.times

ACTIVE.TIMES(5) 					    InterNetNews Documentation						   ACTIVE.TIMES(5)

NAME

       active.times - List of local creation times of newsgroups

DESCRIPTION

       The file pathdb/active.times provides a chronological record of when newsgroups were created on the local server.  This file is normally
       updated by mod-active and innd whenever a newgroup control message is processed or a "ctlinnd newgroup" command is issued, and is used by
       nnrpd to answer NEWGROUPS requests.

       Each line consists of three fields:

	   <name> <time> <creator>

       The first field is the name of the newsgroup.  The second field is the time it was created, expressed as the number of seconds since the
       epoch.  The third field is plain text intended to describe the entity that created the newsgroup.  This field is encoded in UTF-8 and is
       usually the e-mail address of the person who created the group, as specified in the control message or on the ctlinnd command line, or the
       newsmaster specified at configure time if no creator argument was given to ctlinnd (by default, it is "usenet").

       You can get the active.times file of another NNTP server with getlist(1).

EXAMPLE

       The line:

	  news.admin.moderation 1175716803 <group-admin@isc.org>

       shows that the newsgroup news.admin.moderation was created on April 4th, 2007, at 20:00:03 UTC.	This date can be obtained for instance
       with "convdate -c 1175716803" (convdate(1) is shipped with INN) or "date -u -d "Jan 1, 1970 00:00:00 +0000 + 1175716803 seconds"".  It is
       when the newsgroup was locally created; in this example, it is when a control message sent by "group-admin@isc.org" was received and
       processed by the news server (see control.ctl(5) for more details).  Therefore, the time is not necessarily the same on every news server.

HISTORY

       Written by Rich $alz <rsalz@uunet.uu.net> for InterNetNews.  Converted to POD by Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>.

       $Id: active.times.pod 8638 2009-09-28 19:59:48Z iulius $

SEE ALSO

       active(5), convdate(1), ctlinnd(8), getlist(1), inn.conf(5), innd(8), mod-active(8), nnrpd(8).

INN 2.5.3							    2009-09-29							   ACTIVE.TIMES(5)