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E-mail addresses
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roy Tennant)
Fri Apr 17 09:00:24 1992
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1992 07:56:20 CDT
Reply-To: Public-Access Computer Systems Forum <PACS-L%UHUPVM1.BITNET@RICEVM1.RICE.EDU>
From: Roy Tennant <rtennant%library.Berkeley.EDU@RICEVM1.RICE.EDU>
To: Multiple recipients of list PACS-L <PACS-L@UHUPVM1.MIT.EDU>
----------------------------Original message----------------------------
Recent discussion of locating e-mail addresses has spurred me to describe
one way I handle that problem. I have an account on a machine running
UNIX, so if you have the same environment you should be able to do the
following as well. If you use a different operating system, it is possible
that you may have some of the same capabilities but must use
different commands.
First, I send a message to the LISTSERVs that host key library lists
(e.g., PACS-L) asking it to send me a list of subscribers. The LISTSERV
command is REV (for review) and the list name. For example, to get
the list of PACS-L subscribers, you would send the message REV PACS-L
to LISTSERV@UHUPVM1.BITNET
Then, when the file arrives in your e-mail you save it as a file in your
computer account. This file can then be searched for the occurrence of
a string with the "grep" command. This UNIX command will search the
specified string in the specified file or files and display the line in which
the string occurs. For maximum recall, I use the "-i" switch with the
command, which specifies a case-insensitive string search (i.e., will
retrieve uppercase, lowercase or mixed matches). The full command
string is "grep", a space, "-i", a space, the string you want to search,
and the name of the file (or files) you want to search. For example:
% grep -i tennant pacsl <<=- this search retrieved this result:
rtennant@LIBRARY.BERKELEY.EDU Roy Tennant
%
Searching multiple files looks like this:
% grep -i tennant pacsl cnidirl <<=- note that two files were specified
pacsl:rtennant@LIBRARY.BERKELEY.EDU Roy Tennant
cnidirl:rtennant@LIBRARY.BERKELEY.EDU Roy Tennant
%
If you wish to get really fancy, you can alias the "grep -i" command to
something simpler, such as "f" for find by an appropriate "alias" line
in your ".cshrc" file.
Obviously, you can also use this search facility to find everyone from
a particular institution that subscribe to a particular list if you know
the appropriate string. I have used this technique to great advantage
when I misplaced someone's e-mail address. I find that many of the
persons I wish to correspond with can be found in this manner.
Roy Tennant
The Library, UC Berkeley
