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echo: bbs_carnival
to: Sean Dennis
from: Nicholas Boel
date: 2015-06-14 08:43:06
subject: Re: Nodelist query tool for Linux

Hello Sean,

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.

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

cat nodelist.000 | grep 'user_name'

Change 000 to the nodelist number you're actually looking at, obviously..
but that should be an easy way to snag any information of that user name
out of it for you.

Regards,
Nick

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