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5 total messages Started by Greg Klein Tue, 23 May 1989 01:47

#132

Author: Greg Klein
Date: Tue, 23 May 1989 01:47

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Is there a convenient way to archive everything EXCEPT certain notesfiles?
In particular, every week (via cron) I run the following:

nfarchive -14 -d "*"

to delete ALL notesfiles that are 14 days old.  But now, suppose I would like
to archive all notesfiles in this way, except one called "stuff".  I could
replace the "*" with an explicit list of all notesfiles except "stuff" (or
list them in a file and use the -f option) but the list would be hard to
maintain unless it is generated dynamically, but this would be cumbersome.

I have notes version 2.7.

Sorry if this is not an appropriate place to be asking notes questions but
I don't know of a better place.

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Re: nfarchive question

#133

Author: Bob Jewett
Date: Wed, 24 May 1989 21:59

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> But now, suppose I would like
> to archive all notesfiles in this way, except one called "stuff".

One way is to have a file "specials" with all special groups in it, then do:

    fgrep -vxf specials ~notes/Active | grep -v '^!!' > fortnightly
    nfarchive -14 -d -f fortnightly

The -x option to fgrep requires a full-line match on patterns, so that
comp.stuff will not also be matched.

Instead, I maintain a master list of expiration times, and the weekly
cleanup script forms the weekly, fortnightly, monthly, monthly-save, and
never-touch lists for nfarchive from that list.  The weekly script also
looks for groups in Active that are not yet in the master list, and
posts a nastygram to nfmaint.

> Sorry if this is not an appropriate place to be asking notes questions but
> I don't know of a better place.

hug.general (if you get it) gets more exposure within HP.

Bob Jewett

Re: nfarchive question

#130

Author: Scott Blachowicz
Date: Wed, 24 May 1989 22:42

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/ grlab:news.software.notes / klein@mechp.UUCP (Greg Klein) /  6:47 pm  May 22, 1989 /
> Is there a convenient way to archive everything EXCEPT certain notesfiles?
> In particular, every week (via cron) I run the following:
> 
> nfarchive -14 -d "*"
> 
> to delete ALL notesfiles that are 14 days old.  But now, suppose I would like
> to archive all notesfiles in this way, except one called "stuff".  I could
Does this work? I think it should.
  nfarchive -14 -d '*' '!stuff'

Scott Blachowicz
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Re: nfarchive question

#128

Author: schwager
Date: Thu, 25 May 1989 03:37

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> /* ---------- "nfarchive question" ---------- */
> Is there a convenient way to archive everything EXCEPT certain notesfiles?
> In particular, every week (via cron) I run the following:
> 
> nfarchive -14 -d "*"
> 
> I have notes version 2.7.

You should be able to specify the expiration time from the director's
page, no?  So for certain notesfiles, you can specify "Never".

-Mike Schwager				schwager@a.cs.uiuc.edu
-- {uunet,convex,pur-ee}!uiucdcs!schwager   schwager%uiuc@csnet-relay.arpa
	University of Illinois, Dept. of Computer Science

Re: nfarchive question

#129

Author: Jacob Gore
Date: Thu, 25 May 1989 21:27

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/ news.software.notes / klein@mechp.UUCP (Greg Klein) / May 22, 1989 /
>Is there a convenient way to archive everything EXCEPT certain notesfiles?
>In particular, every week (via cron) I run the following:
>
>nfarchive -14 -d "*"
>
>to delete ALL notesfiles that are 14 days old.  But now, suppose I would like
>to archive all notesfiles in this way, except one called "stuff".

Have you tried the usual .notesrc notation?

	nfarchive -14 -d "* !stuff !alt.*"  # etc.

Jacob Gore				Gore@EECS.NWU.Edu
Northwestern Univ., EECS Dept.		{oddjob,chinet,att}!nucsrl!gore

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