CVTBATCH(8)

💅 CVTBATCH(8) — like, the cvtbatch page, bestie ✨

okay so real talk, this is cvtbatch from the InterNetNews Documentation, section 8 of the manual (the sysadmin girlies know 👑). it converts Usenet batch files into INN format and honestly? it's giving humble-but-iconic. let's get into it 🎀

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🌸 NAME 🌸

cvtbatch — converts Usenet batch files into INN format. that's the whole job. she does one thing and she slays at it 💅

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

cvtbatch [-w items]

that's it. one optional flag. minimal queen behaviour 🫶

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so here's the vibe: cvtbatch reads standard input as a sequence of lines, converts each line, and writes it to standard output. main character energy from start to finish, no cap ✨

what it's for (iykyk): it converts simple batch files that contain just the storage API token of an article into INN batch files that contain additional information about each article. so it's basically a glow-up machine for your batch file 💖

each line is taken as a storage API token indicating a Usenet article. and listen — only the first word of each line is parsed; anything following whitespace is ignored, fr fr. lines not starting with a valid token are also silently ignored 🙈 (no error, no drama, she just moves on).

💡 pro tip straight from the page: if your input file consists of a series of message-IDs, then use grephistory with the -s flag piped into cvtbatch. that's the move. that's the pipeline. periodt.

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💅 OPTIONS 💅

• -w items — specifies how each output line should be written ✍️. the items for this flag should be chosen from the "W" flag items as specified in newsfeeds(5). they may be chosen from the following set:
  • b — size of the article in bytes 📏
  • f — storage API token of the article (same as "n") 🏷️
  • m — article message-ID 💌
  • n — storage API token of the article 🔖
  • t — arrival time of the article as seconds since epoch ⏰

and the default? the default is "nm", that is to say the storage API token followed by the message-ID of the article. so if you don't say anything, you get n then m. iconic defaults honestly 🎀

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🌈 HISTORY 🌈

written by Rich $alz <rsalz@uunet.uu.net> for InterNetNews. converted to POD by Julien Elie. legends only 👑✨

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🍓 SEE ALSO 🍓

• grephistory(1)
• newsfeeds(5)

go read those too, bestie, they're lowkey relevant 🔥

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and that's the whole page!! this one's from INN 2.7.4, dated 2022-07-10 — so she's a 2.7.4 girlie from July 10th, 2022, and she ate, no crumbs 💜✨ 🧚‍♀️