GETLIST (1)
get a list from an NNTP server
SYNOPSIS
getlist
[
-h host
]
[
list
[
pattern
[
types
]
]
]
DESCRIPTION
The
getlist
program obtains a list from an NNTP server and sends
it to standard output.
The
list
may be one of
active ,
active.times ,
distributions ,
or
newsgroups .
These values request the
active (5),
active.times ,
<pathetc\ in\ inn.conf>/distributions .
or
<pathdb in inn.conf>/newsgroups
files, respectively.
OPTIONS
-h
If the ``-h'' flag is used, then the program connects to the server
on the specified host.
The default is to connect to the server specified in the
inn.conf (5)
file.
If the
list
parameter is
active ,
then the
pattern
and
types
parameters may be used to limit the output.
When
pattern
is used, only active lines with groups that match according to
wildmat (3)
are printed.
When
types
is also given, only active lines that have a fourth field starting
with a character found in
types
are printed.
For example, the following command will obtain the one-line descriptions
of all newsgroups found on UUNET:
getlist -h news.uu.net newsgroups
The following line lists all groups where local postings are permitted,
are moderated or aliased:
Note that the listing files other than the active file is a common
extension to the NNTP protocol and may not be available on all servers.
HISTORY
Written by Landon Curt Noll <chongo@toad.com> for InterNetNews.
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This is revision \\$3, dated \\$4.
SEE ALSO
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