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RSSTAIL(1)                       User Commands                      RSSTAIL(1)

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

       -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.

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