NAME¶
nnpost - post news articles (
nn)
SYNOPSIS¶
nnpost [ -
dksy string ] [ -
f file ] [ -
p ] [
group... ]
DESCRIPTION¶
nnpost is used to post new articles using
nn's normal interface,
but without entering
nn in reading mode.
When started, it reads the
init file and then directly executes
nn's
:post command.
It will prompt for a (comma-separated) list of news groups, the article subject,
a list of keywords, a summary, and the distribution of the article. Each of
these prompts can also be supplied via command line options or arguments as
described below.
When prompted for the "Newsgroup:", entering a
? as the first
key will cause
nnpost to list all the known news groups and their
purpose (if this information is available). You can also enter
/
followed by a word or regular expression which will cause
nnpost to
produce a (much) shorter listing only containing the groups whose name and/or
purpose description matches the regular expression. When paging through either
list, you can enter
q to quit the listing.
If a source file is specified with
-f it will be used as the initial
article body. If the
-p option is also specified, the article is posted
directly without editing.
nnpost can be used to do unattended postings if sufficient arguments are
provided on the command line to build the header and the body of the article.
The required arguments are: one or more newsgroups, a subject (
-s), a
source file (
-f), a distribution (
-d), and the
-p
option. Other fields which are not specified (e.g. keywords) will not be
included in the header. The contents of the
news-header variable in the
init file will be included in the header.
OPTIONS¶
- -d distribution
- Use the specified distribution for the article.
- -k "keywords"
- Associate the specified keywords with the article.
- -s "subject"
- Use the specified subject for the new article.
- -y "summary"
- Include the given summary in the article header.
- -f file
- Read the article body from the specified file.
- -p
- Post the article specified with -f without editing.
FILES¶
~/.nn/init The control variables for
nnpost.
SEE ALSO¶
nn(1)
AUTHOR¶
Kim F. Storm, Texas Instruments A/S, Denmark
E-mail: storm@texas.dk