---
name: "sfeed"
section: "5"
platform: "linux"
package: "sfeed"
version: "2.2-1"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/sfeed/5"
---

# sfeed(5)

feed format

## NAME

**sfeed** – feed format

## SYNOPSIS

**sfeed**

## DESCRIPTION

[sfeed(1)](/sfeed/1.md) writes the feed data in a TAB-separated format to stdout.

## TAB-SEPARATED FORMAT FIELDS

The items are output per line in a TAB-separated format.

For the fields title, id and author each whitespace character is replaced by a SPACE character. Control characters are removed.

The content field can contain newlines and these are escaped. TABs, newlines and '\\' are escaped with '\\', so it becomes: '\\t', '\\n' and '\\\\'. Other whitespace characters except spaces are removed. Control characters are removed.

The order and content of the fields are:

- 1\. timestamp

  UNIX timestamp in UTC+0, empty if missing or on a parse failure.

- 2\. title

  Title text, HTML code in titles is ignored and is treated as plain-text.

- 3\. link

  Link

- 4\. content

  Content, can have plain-text or HTML code depending on the content-type field.

- 5\. content-type

  "html" or "plain" if it has content.

- 6\. id

  RSS item GUID or Atom id.

- 7\. author

  Item, first author.

- 8\. enclosure

  Item, first enclosure.

- 9\. category

  Item, categories, multiple values are separated by the '\|' character.

## SEE ALSO

[sfeed(1)](/sfeed/1.md), [sfeed\_plain(1)](/sfeed_plain/1.md)

## AUTHORS

Hiltjo Posthuma ⟨*hiltjo@codemadness.org*⟩