rsstail - a console RSS reader that monitors feeds and outputs new entries

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  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.

                                                       0.1                                            RSSTAIL(1)

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-fdoeswithfiles.

Name

       rsstail - a console RSS reader that monitors feeds and outputs new entries

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

       -bX      Limit description and comments to Xbytes-z        Continue even if there are XML parser errors in the RSS feed

       -Zstring Output user-specified string before all the other headings

       -nX      Initially show only first Xitems-H        Strip HTML tags

       -Ausername:password
                 Authenticate against webserver

       -uURL    URL of RSS feed to tail

       -iseconds
                 Check interval in seconds (default is 15 minutes)

       -r        Print items in reverse order

       -xhost[:port]
                 Proxy server to use

       -yusername: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