NAME
nncheck - check for unread articles
SYNOPSIS
nncheck [ -Q -r -t ] [ -f format ]
DESCRIPTION
nncheck will report if there are some articles on the system which you
have not read.
Without options, nncheck will simply print a message reporting the
number of unread articles with the following format:
There are 327 unread articles in 25 groups
and when there are no unread articles, the following message will be
printed:
No News (is good news)
nncheck will exit with a value of 0 if there are unread articles, and
99 if there is no news (see the exception for the -r option.)
It is important to notice that even though unread articles have been
reported by nncheck, the actual number of unread articles may be much
lower (or even zero) when nn is invoked to read the articles. This is
because the calculation of the number of unread articles is only based
on recorded article number intervals. Invoking nn to read the articles
may reveal that the articles have previously been read in another news
group, have been expired, or are killed using the auto-kill facility.
The following options are used to modify the amount and format of the
output from nncheck:
-Q Quiet operation. No output is produced, only the exit status
indicate whether there is unread news.
-t Print the name of each group with unread articles, and how many
unread articles there are (not counting split digests!).
-r Output a single integer value specifying the number of unread
articles, and exit with a 0 status (somebody told me this would
be useful).
-f format
Output the number of unread articles using the specified format.
The format is a text that may contain the following %-escapes:
%-code resulting output
%u "uuu unread articles"
%g "ggg groups"
%i "is" if 1 unread article, else "are"
%U "uuu"
%G "ggg"
where uuu is the number of unread articles, and ggg is the
number of groups with unread articles.
For example, the default output format is
"There %i %u in %g"
which I prefer to the following less perfect format:
"There are %U unread article(s) in %G group(s)"
FILES
~/.newsrc The record of read articles
$db/MASTER The database master index
SEE ALSO
nn(1), nngoback(1), nngrab(1), nngrep(1), nnpost(1), nntidy(1)
nnadmin(1M), nnusage(1M), nnmaster(1M)
AUTHOR
Kim F. Storm, Texas Instruments A/S, Denmark
E-mail: storm@texas.dk