news.daily and dropped innfeed files

[Russ Allbery]

Julien ÉLIE <julien at trigofacile.com> writes:

> I think something like that should work in news.daily:
>
> # Try to find the path to innfeed's spool.  The default is
> # ${PATHSPOOL}/innfeed if not found.
> INNFEEDSPOOL=`${AWK} '{gsub(/:|#/, " & ")} {if ($1 == "backlog-directory" && $2 == ":") print $3}' ${PATHETC}/innfeed.conf`
> test -z "${INNFEEDSPOOL}" && test -f "${PATHSPOOL}/innfeed" && INNFEEDSPOOL="innfeed"
>
> if [ -d "${PATHSPOOL}/${INNFEEDSPOOL}" ]
> then
>  cd "${PATHSPOOL}/${INNFEEDSPOOL}"
>
>  # Find the PIDs of innfeed.
>  LOCKS=`cat *.lock | ${SORT} -u`

Portability paranoia says that you should use '| sort | uniq' here,
since sort -u is a GNUism.

>  # Process files like "innfeed-dropped.A001703" where
>  # 1703 is not in $LOCKS.
>  for file in $(find -name "innfeed-dropped*")

I've tended to use backticks instead of $(), but I don't know if there's
really any problem with $() on any shell that we care about.  Usually
Solaris /bin/sh is the worst.

Otherwise, this looks great to me.

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