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NNCHECK(1)                             General Commands Manual                            NNCHECK(1)



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  un‐
              read 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 AT texas.dk



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