| Option |
Description |
|---|
| -A |
Enables disk-based article assembly.
This will download the articles to disk (instead of RAM)
prior to decoding. |
| -b file |
Batch file processing.
file should contain a list of article
subjects (from the .log files; see -s), one per line,
to be downloaded.
Mutually exclusive with -I and -X. |
| -C |
Cleans up filenames. Without -C, ubh will perform
certain mandatory character substitutions.
This option performs further cleanup of the file names
by replacing all non-alphanumeric characters in a filename with
the EVILCHAR. Kills all non-alphanumeric leading characters.
This will eliminate spaces in filnames, as well as all other
undesireable (and possibly illegal) characters. |
| -d |
Diagnostic mode. Downloads and writes all unread
articles in raw form. This occurs prior to single and
multi-part filtering. It's very useful to look at the raw
articles to see why they are failing to be selected for
downloading. Helpful for reverse-engineering new or bizarre
encoding formats.
You can also use this to perform your own post-processing
directly on the raw articles.
Articles are output using the article ID as the file name
with the extension .dump. |
| -D |
Dump mode. Downloads and writes all selected single and
complete multi-part article to disk, instead of decoding.
Very useful to look at the raw
articles to see why they are failing to be unencoded. Helpful
for reverse-engineering new or bizarre encoding formats.
You can also use this to perform your own post-processing
directly on the raw articles. |
| -c file |
Use file as configuration file, instead of the default.
On Win32 platforms, the default is ubhrc. On Unix
platforms, the default is .ubhrc.
By default, ubh will look in your home directory
for the .ubhrc/ubhrc file. |
| -G group |
By default ubh will process every subscribed group
in the .newsrc. This option specifies the name of
one group to be processed.
Note that group must exist in the .newsrc and
must be subscribed. |
| -a |
Process all articles, but disregard the newsrc (ie, consider
all articles even if they are marked as read in the newsrc, and
do not catch up the group at the end of processing of the group). |
| -f num |
Process the first num articles. Updates newsrc. |
| -l num |
Process the last num articles. Updates newsrc. |
| -s |
Log all subjects to subjects.log. Log multi-part
subjects to multiparts.log. Doesn't download
anything. Disregards newsrc. If FORCEDIR is
in effect, the names of the file will be prepended
with the group name. |
| -I regexp |
Inclusion search filter (double quote on command line).
regexp is any valid Perl regular expression. |
| -X regexp |
Exclusion search filter (double quote on command line).
regexp is any valid Perl regular expression. |
| -L |
Long filenames - uses the article subject as the filename.
This makes life easier because many folks encode their
files with terribly vague filenames. |
| -n |
Updates the .newsrc every time an article is processed,
instead of waiting until the entire group has been processed. |
| -O opt |
Tells ubh what to do when it downloads a file
and a file by that name already exists.
no tells ubh to create a unique filename (by
prepending the article number to the filename).
yes tells ubh to overwrite the existing file
with the new file.
skip tells ubh to skip the incoming file
and keep the existing file. In the case of multipart
uuencoded binaries, ubh will download
the first part to determine the file name; if a
file with the same name already exists, ubh
will skip the rest of the parts for that binary.
The default is no. |
| -u |
Prints out a brief usage summary. |
| -w |
Prints out warranty information. |
| -y |
chmod 0666 on all output files. |
| -z |
Marks articles that don't pass inclusion/exclusion as
read. This cleans up the .newsrc dramatically. |