NAME
rsstail - a console RSS reader that monitors feeds and outputs new entries
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.
rsstail fetches RSS feeds from specified URLs and outputs them continuously, much like tail -f does with files.
OPTIONS
Options can be given in any order. Options that don't have an argument can be combined after a single dash.
- -t
-
Show a timestamp of when the item was processed
- -l
-
Show item's link
- -e
-
Show item's enclosure URL
- -d
-
Show item's description
- -p
-
Show item's publication date
- -a
-
Show item's author
- -c
-
Show item's comments
- -g
-
Show item's GUID
- -N
-
Do not show headings
- -b X
-
Limit description and comments to X bytes
- -z
-
Continue even if there are XML parser errors in the RSS feed
- -Z string
-
Output user-specified string before all the other headings
- -n X
-
Initially show only first X items
- -H
-
Strip HTML tags
- -A username:password
-
Authenticate against webserver
- -u URL
-
URL of RSS feed to tail
- -i seconds
-
Check interval in seconds (default is 15 minutes)
- -r
-
Print items in reverse order
- -x host[:port]
-
Proxy server to use
- -y username:password
-
Credentials for the proxy server
- -P
-
Do not exit when an error occurs
- -1
-
One shot mode: check the feeds for new items, print them out and exit
- -v
-
Be verbose (repeat to increase verbosity)
- -h
-
Show options and their descriptions
- -V
-
Show version of the program
AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Rene Mayorga <[email protected]> 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 or any later version published 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.