NAME

rsstail 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.
-l: Show link
-d: Show Description
-p: Show Publication date
-a: Show author
-c: Show comments
-g: Show guid
-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.