rsstail(1) a Console Based RSS news reader

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 <[email protected]> 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.