rsstail1

Usage

Overview

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