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RSSTAIL

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
OPTIONS
AUTHOR

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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 <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.

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