#!/bin/sh -e
# noffle-newgroups -- show new groups added in the last $1 days
# Copyright       : http://www.fsf.org/copyleft/gpl.html
# Author          : Dan Jacobson -- http://jidanni.org/
# Created On      : Mon Oct  6 11:21:02 2003
# Last Modified On: Thu May  5 08:23:43 2005
# Update Count    : 34
#Usage: noffle-newgroups number_of_days
: ${1?}
echo newgroups $(date +%Y%m%d\ %H%M%S -d "$1 days ago")|
nc -q 222 localhost 119|
awk '/^\./{next};{sub(/\r/,"")};/^[0-9]+ /{print;next};{print $NF,$1}'|
sort -k 2
#P.S. perhaps in anacrontab try e.g.
#11 22 noffnew /home/you/bin/noffle-newgroups 13