searching for group names

Gentlemen, today we shall discuss searching for group names. E.g.,
let's ask noffle what is the full name of that shortwave group.

I see I have written a bash function to do this:
noffle_search_group ()
{
    noffle -g | awk -F\\t '$1~'/$@/'{print $6,$1}' | sort -k 2
}
e.g.,
$ noffle_search_group shortwave
y rec.radio.shortwave

The problem is it is computationally expensive, judged by how long it
takes, at least on initial run.

Therefore, one wonders if instead inside noffle itself, with its vast
computational capabilities, such searching could be done, as a new
feature?


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