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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