rsstail
rsstail
TLDR
Show the feed of a given URL and wait for new entries appearing at the bottom
Show the feed in reverse chronological order (newer at the bottom)
Include publication date and link
Set update interval
Show feed and exit
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 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.
