cn -- a checknews script

[Jerry Peek]

In article <1549 at sunybcs.UUCP> uggworek at sunybcs.UUCP (Don Gworek) writes:
> Here's a cute little shell script that lists available news
> articles in multicolumn form, such as:
> 
> [31] comp.lang.c        [ 1] wny.yumyum         [ 2] mod.sources        
> [ 4] comp.unix.questio  [ 1] comp.unix.wizards  [ 1] mod.computers.sun  
> [ 2] mod.computers.wor  

A useful script -- lets you use "rn -c" and avoid all the verbosity.
Unfortunately, if a newsgroup has more than 99 unread articles, "cn"
just prints the first two digits of the number.  At the expense of 3 more
characters on each line, you can fix the problem by changing this:

> 			printf "[%2.2s] %-17.17s  ", $5, $4; \

to read:
 			printf "[%3.3s] %-17.17s  ", $5, $4; \

[No, I *won't* post a "patch" file for a nine-line program! :-)]

--Jerry Peek, Tektronix, Inc.
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