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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Need to create an ALIAS.... Post 302302541 by fpmurphy on Tuesday 31st of March 2009 09:12:18 AM
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

rsstail

RSSTAIL(1)							   User Commands							RSSTAIL(1)

NAME

       rsstail - a Console Based RSS news reader

SYNOPSIS

       rsstail [OPTIONS]... -u URL

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page was written for the Debian distribution because the original program does not have a manual page.

       Parse a RSS feed and read it, in an output similar to the tail command.

OPTIONS

       This is a Few Description on the main options for rsstail

       -t	 Show timestamp.

       -N	 Do not show headings

       -Z X	 Add heading 'x'

       -l	 Show link

       -d	 Show Description

       -p	 Show Publication date

       -a	 Show author

       -c	 Show comments

       -b X	 Where X is the limit in bytes for description/comments

       -z	 Continue even if there are XML parser errors in the RSS feed.

       -n X	 Initially show X items

       -H	 Strip HTML tags

       -o X	 only show items newer than X[s/M/h/d/m/y]

       -u URL	 URL of RSS feed to tai

       -i Seconds
		 check interval in seconds (default is 15 minutes)

       -r	 Print in reverse order

       -x Proxy  proxy server to use (host[:port])

       -y ProxyAuth
		 proxy authorization (user:password)

       -P	 do not exit when an error occurs

       -v	 be verbose (add more to be more verbose)

       -h	 Help output

       -V	 Show version of program.

AUTHOR

       This  manual  page  was	written by Rene Mayorga <rmayorga@debian.org.sv> for the Debian system (but may be used by others).  Permission is
       granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 any later version pub-
       lished by the Free Software Foundation.

       On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.

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