14 Jun 15 08:43, you wrote to Sean Dennis:

 NB> Hello Sean,

 NB> On 14 Jun 15 03:19, Sean Dennis wrote to All:

 SD>> I do a lot of my mail via MultiMail (I can be very erratic in having
 SD>> time to catch up with mail; it's 0316 EDT right now for example!).
 SD>> I've found lately that I need to look up someone's network AKA here
 SD>> and there.  I'm using joe to search the nodelist manually.  Does
 SD>> anyone know of a standalone query tool that I could use for Linux?  I
 SD>> admit I'm still a little green when it comes to using text search
 SD>> tools under Linux.

 NB> Are you trying to look up by the person's name? If so:

 NB> cat nodelist.000 | grep 'user_name'

grep it directly and save a step plus resources ;)

     grep -Ei -e ",nicholas_boel," fido/nodelist/nodelist.145

Host,154,Wisconsin,Pewaukee_WI,Nicholas_Boel,-Unpublished-,300,CM,INA:binkp.pha
rcyde.org,IBN,IFT
,10,The_Pharcyde,Pewaukee_WI,Nicholas_Boel,-Unpublished-,300,CM,INA:binkp.pharc
yde.org,IBN,IFT
,701,Dark_Sorrow,Pewaukee_WI,Nicholas_Boel,-Unpublished-,300,CM,MO,INA:binkp.ph
arcyde.org,IBN:24555
,702,Mystic_Test_System,Pewaukee_WI,Nicholas_Boel,-Unpublished-,300,CM,INA:bink
p.pharcyde.org,IBN:24556

then one can also get more specific looking in specific fields... for example,
i know they're in wisconsin and the node number i'm looking for starts with a
'7'...

     grep -Ei -e ".*,7.*,.*_wi,nicholas_boel," fido/nodelist/nodelist.145

,701,Dark_Sorrow,Pewaukee_WI,Nicholas_Boel,-Unpublished-,300,CM,MO,INA:binkp.ph
arcyde.org,IBN:24555
,702,Mystic_Test_System,Pewaukee_WI,Nicholas_Boel,-Unpublished-,300,CM,INA:bink
p.pharcyde.org,IBN:24556

;)

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