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## NAME
       nntidy - tidy your personal .newsrc file

## SYNOPSIS
       **nntidy** [ -**aciNQrsuv** ]  [ group ]...

## DESCRIPTION
       **nntidy** will clean out non-existing groups, adjust obviously wrong article numbers, and remove
       badly formed lines from your .newsrc file.

       It may optionally remove ignored groups, unsubscribed groups, and groups which are  not  part
       of your presentation sequence or the groups specified on the command line.

       You should run **nntidy** if your rc file has been corrupted for some reason.

## OPTIONS
### -a -cisu.

### -c
              older news readers, such as [**readnews**(1)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/readnews/1/markdown)

### -i
              `X' in the GROUPS file.

### -r

### -s
              the init file.  If one or more groups are specified on the command line,  entries  not
              matched by these groups (and their subgroups etc) will be removed.
              Notice  that  depending on how you construct the presentation sequence, this may cause
              unsubscribed groups to be removed from .newsrc, but this will not normally happen.

### -u
              only the news group name and the `!' mark.

### -v

### -N
              back to disk.  This can be used with the **-v** option to see whether tidying is required.

### -Q

## FILES
       ~/.newsrc        The record of read articles
       ~/.newsrc.tidy   The original rc file before tidy

## SEE ALSO
       [nn(1)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/nn/1/markdown), [nncheck(1)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/nncheck/1/markdown), [nngoback(1)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/nngoback/1/markdown), [nngrab(1)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/nngrab/1/markdown), [nngrep(1)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/nngrep/1/markdown), [nnpost(1)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/nnpost/1/markdown)
       [nnadmin(1M)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/nnadmin/1M/markdown), [nnusage(1M)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/nnusage/1M/markdown), [nnmaster(8)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/nnmaster/8/markdown)

## AUTHOR
       Kim F. Storm, Texas Instruments A/S, Denmark
       E-mail: <storm@texas.dk>





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