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@@ -963,6 +963,58 @@ TSV format. - - - +Counting unread and total items +------------------------------- + +It can be useful to show the counts of unread items, for example in a +windowmanager or statusbar. + +The below example script counts the items of the last day in the same way the +formatting tools do: + + #!/bin/sh + # Count the new items of the last day. + LC_ALL=C awk -F '\t' -v "old=$(($(date +'%s') - 86400))" ' + { + total++; + } + int($1) >= old { + totalnew++; + } + END { + print "New: " totalnew; + print "Total: " total; + }' ~/.sfeed/urls ~/.sfeed/feeds/* + +The below example script counts the unread items using the sfeed_curses URL +file: + + #!/bin/sh + # Count the unread and total items from feeds using the URL file. + LC_ALL=C awk -F '\t' ' + # URL file: amount of fields is 1. + NF == 1 { + u[$0] = 1; # lookup table of URLs. + next; + } + # feed file: check by URL or id. + { + total++; + if (length($3)) { + if (u[$3]) + read++; + } else if (length($6)) { + if (u[$6]) + read++; + } + } + END { + print "Unread: " (total - read); + print "Total: " total; + }' ~/.sfeed/urls ~/.sfeed/feeds/* + +- - - + Running custom commands inside the program ------------------------------------------ |