NNTP-PULL(1)

💌 NNTP-PULL(1) — the nntp-pull manual, bestie edition ✨

okay so real talk, this is the nntp-pull page from the nntp-pull manual and it's literally your girl for grabbing articles off a server and yeeting them into an mbox. let's get into it 🫶

🌈 NAME

nntp-pull — fetch articles from the server to the mbox

🎀 SYNOPSIS

nntp-pull [options...] groupname [groupname...]

💅 DESCRIPTION

So what we're doing here is fetching messages from the server and saving them into the mailbox (that's mbox format, iykyk). Every single argument is supposed to be a name of a group, and optionally you can follow it with a > character and then an mbox filename. And if you just... don't give a filename? No stress, bestie — it defaults to the name of the group. she's lowkey self-sufficient like that ✨

Besides the global options (which live over in sinntp(1), go say hi), the nntp-pull command takes these options:

✨ OPTIONS

• --limit=N — pull at most N messages. that's it, that's the cap. don't be greedy 💖
• --reget — start from the first available message. like, from the very beginning. iconic behaviour honestly 👑

🍓 EXAMPLES

nntp-pull --server=news.example.org --limit=50 'comp.os.linux>os-linux'

Fetches at most the 50 newest articles from the newsgroup comp.os.linux located on news.example.org server, and appends them to the os-linux mailbox file. slay 💅

nntp-pull --server=news.example.net --reget --limit=3 comp.os.windows

Fetches at most the 3 oldest articles from the newsgroup comp.os.windows located on news.example.net server, and appends them to the comp.os.windows mailbox file. see how --reget flips it to oldest? the way that works is so satisfying fr fr 🌸

👀 SEE ALSO

• sinntp(1) — the global options live here, go read it, no cap

©️ COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2009, 2010, 2011 Piotr Lewandowski, Jakub Wilk

and that's the whole page bestie!! 💖 this was nntp-pull version 1.6, dated 2016-12-19, and yes she's still serving looks. go forth and pull those articles, main character 🧚✨