NAME

       nntidy - tidy your personal .newsrc file

SYNOPSIS

       nntidy [ -aciNQrsuv ]  [ group ]...

DESCRIPTION

       nntidy  will  clean  out  non-existing  groups,  adjust obviously wrong article numbers, and remove badly
       formed lines from your .newsrc file.

       It may optionally remove ignored groups, unsubscribed groups, and groups  which  are  not  part  of  your
       presentation sequence or the groups specified on the command line.

       You should run nntidy if your rc file has been corrupted for some reason.

OPTIONS

       -a     Equivalent to -cisu.

       -c     Remove  unrecognized  lines.   This  will  also  remove the `options' line used by some older news
              readers, such as readnews(1)

       -i     Remove entries for groups which are ignored in the database, e.g.  entries marked with `X' in  the
              GROUPS file.

       -r     Remove entries for unsubscribed groups.

       -s     Remove entries which are not included in the group presentation sequence defined in the init file.
              If  one or more groups are specified on the command line, entries not matched by these groups (and
              their subgroups etc) will be removed.
              Notice that depending on how you construct the presentation sequence, this may cause  unsubscribed
              groups to be removed from .newsrc, but this will not normally happen.

       -u     Truncate  entries  for  unsubscribed  groups, by removing the article numbers and leaving only the
              news group name and the `!' mark.

       -v     Verbose operation.  Reports each change made to the .newsrc file.

       -N     No update mode.  The requested operations are performed, but the result is  not  written  back  to
              disk.  This can be used with the -v option to see whether tidying is required.

       -Q     Quiet operation.  The version information is not printed.

FILES

       ~/.newsrc        The record of read articles
       ~/.newsrc.tidy   The original rc file before tidy

SEE ALSO

       nn(1), nncheck(1), nngoback(1), nngrab(1), nngrep(1), nnpost(1)
       nnadmin(1M), nnusage(1M), nnmaster(8)

AUTHOR

       Kim F. Storm, Texas Instruments A/S, Denmark
       E-mail: storm@texas.dk

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