NAME¶
statnews - generate some useful statistics out of a newsgroup
SYNOPSIS¶
statnews [OPTIONS]
NEWSGROUP
DESCRIPTION¶
The
statnews command get some useful statistics out of a newsgroup. It
displays things like how many articles each author posted, how many characters
was written, how many lines were quoted, how many articles belong to each
thread, the number of messages/characters per day, the average message length,
and so on.
OPTIONS¶
- --capitalize(*)
- Whether to capitalize the name of both the sender and the receiver of each
message (default is "--capitalize": yes). This option is useful
to collect "AUTHOR" together with "author",
"Author", and "AuThor".
- --dotted(*)
- Whether to translate "." to "/" in NEWSGROUP
(default is "--nodotted": does translate). This option may be
useful if your system stores each newsgroup in a dedicate directory (e.g.,
news.useless.group) instead that by hierarchy (e.g.,
news/useless/group), or if your system has a news archive stored
this way.
- --from=DATE
- Set the date statistics start from (DATE format is
"dd/mm/yyyy", GMT).
- --help
- Display the help summary.
- --spooldir=SPOOLDIR
- Search NEWSGROUP in SPOOLDIR (default is
/var/spool/news/articles/).
- --to=DATE
- Set the date statistics end by (DATE format is
"dd/mm/yyyy", GMT).
- --width=WIDTH
- Set the terminal width to WIDTH columns (default is 80, with a
minimum of 70).
Options may be conveniently abbreviated and prefixed by "-" instead of
"--"; the "=" may be omitted or substituted with one or
more blanks.
Options listed with (*) may be negated by adding the prefix "no" in
front of them (e.g., "--dotted" => "--nodotted").
RETURN VALUE¶
The
statnews command returns 0 on success and a positive integer on
errors.
ENVIRONMENT¶
The environment variable
STATNEWS can hold a set of default options for
statnews.
These options are interpreted first by the program and can be overridden by
explicit command line parameters. For example:
- sh:
- "STATNEWS="--nocapital --width=132"; export
STATNEWS"
- csh:
- "setenv STATNEWS "--nocapital --width=132""
FILES¶
The default spool directory is
/var/spool/news/articles/.
SEE ALSO¶
rn(1),
readnews(1).
BUGS¶
There are no known bugs.
UNRESTRICTIONS¶
This program is copylefted. Refer to the GNU General Public License for
conditions of use.
AUTHOR¶
This program has been written and is actively maintained by
Davide Giovanni Maria Salvetti <salve@debian.org>.
HISTORY¶
This program was originally aimed for use with FidoNet style echo areas under
Debian GNU/Linux. It can be successfully used with Usenet newsgroups as well.
More precisely, it can be used with every message base that stores one message
per file in some directory in traditional mbox format.