jason and jill wrote:
...
>Last night I took over a listserv that basically had been left on cruise
>control without a list owner for over a year. Out of 1000 subscribers, a
>couple of hundred are deadwood set NOMAIL, some of whom have been set that
>way for years.
>
>Using a query to the listserv, I received a file that gives the email
>addresses of all nomailed users, but a typical entry is:
>
>User "Bob Jones" is subscribed at address <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and has
>selected the following options:
>
>Followed by several lines listing all of his subscribers options and what
>they mean.
>
>I want to just unsubscribe all these addresses. As listowner, I can unsub
>anyone by mailing listserv the command:
>
>del listname <address>
>
>A batch of commands can be done, at any length, but just doing:
>del listname <addr1>
>del listname <addr2>
>del listname <addr3>
>and so on.
>
>So what I need is a script that will extract just the email addresses,
>with one address on each line, and then prepend "del listname" to each
>address.
I assume your file of users looks something like this:
======== begin ===============
User "Bob Jones" is subscribed at address <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and has
selected the following options:
hjjkkj
adsfdsa
User "Fred Smith" is subscribed at address <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and has
selected the following options:
agda,NOMAIL
User "John Doe" is subscribed at address <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and has
selected the following options:
afda
========= end ==============
This can be done with awk.
Create this file (call it deadwood.awk):
======== begin===============
/^User ".*" is subscribed at address </ {user = substr($0,
match($0, "<.*>"),
RLENGTH)}
/NOMAIL/ {printf("del listname %s\n", user)}
======== end ===============
Assuming your input file is called `file_of_users', run awk:
awk -f deadwook.awk file_of_users >delete_list
Running this on the example above gives this in `delete_list':
========= begin==============
del listname <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
========= end ==============
If this doesn't work, mail me an extract from the file so I can see exactly
what it looks like.
--
Oliver Elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver
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