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* Pranav K Tiwari <jpranav@cisco.com> writes:

  > To allow desktop search programs go through nnml articles, I would
  > like to give an extension like .xyz, and tell these programs to
  > treat these files like email.

I think this is the wrong approach.  Instead of modifying the
filenames to suit the search program, find a way to make the search
program work properly.

It's really not that difficult, see...

   $ find <nnmldir> -type f -regex '^.*[0-9]+$'

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