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

# sfeed\_plain(1)

format feed data to a plain-text list

## NAME

**sfeed\_plain** – format feed data to a plain-text list

## SYNOPSIS

**sfeed\_plain** \[*file ...*\]

## DESCRIPTION

**sfeed\_plain** formats feed data (TSV) from [sfeed(1)](/sfeed/1.md) from stdin or for each *file* to stdout as a plain-text list. If one or more *file* arguments are specified then the basename of the *file* is used as the feed name in the output. If no *file* arguments are specified and so the data is read from stdin then the feed name is empty.

Items with a timestamp from the last day compared to the system time at the time of formatting are marked as new. This value might be overridden through environment variables. Items are marked as new with the prefix "N" at the start of the line.

**sfeed\_plain** aligns the output. It shows a maximum of 70 column-wide characters for the title and outputs an ellipsis symbol if the title is longer and truncated. Make sure the environment variable LC\_CTYPE is set to a UTF-8 locale, so it can determine the proper column-width per rune, using [mbtowc(3)](/mbtowc/3.md) and [wcwidth(3)](/wcwidth/3.md).

## ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

- SFEED\_NEW\_AGE

  Overwrite the maximum age in seconds to mark feeds as new. By default this is 86400, which equals one day.

## EXIT STATUS

The **sfeed\_plain** utility exits 0 on success, and \>0 if an error occurs.

## EXAMPLES

```
curl -s 'https://codemadness.org/atom.xml' | sfeed | sfeed_plain
```

## SEE ALSO

[sfeed(1)](/sfeed/1.md), [sfeed\_html(1)](/sfeed_html/1.md), [sfeed(5)](/sfeed/5.md)

## AUTHORS

Hiltjo Posthuma ⟨*hiltjo@codemadness.org*⟩