Re: searching for group names

On 14-Oct-2004 Dan Jacobson wrote:
> 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.

How many groups do you have? I just tried your function on my news host (a
mighty K6/2 350MHz) which has 38k groups registered, and it took 3 seconds.

That being said, I do think there is something to be said for the output from
'noffle -g' being by default

group-name group-description

and the current

group-name group-server first-article-no last-article-no upstream-next-article
post-status create-date last-access-date group-description

being reserved for 'noffle -g -v' or 'noffle -g verbose'.

The first option would reduce or remove the requirement for awk here.

-- 
Jim Hague - [email protected]          Never trust a computer you can't lift.


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