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rnews

Section: Misc. Reference Manual Pages (Februar 23, 2004)
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ABOUT

rnews is a small rss/rdf fetcher of newssites as slashdot or freshmeat. it depends on ruby and rexml  

USAGE

rnews [-hvls] [-c rcfile] [-t sec] short|uri_of_rss_file  

OPTIONS

-h
display help
-v
display version
-s
use stdin as input
-l
list available shortcuts
-n
output wihtout colors
-c rcfile
configfile to use
-t sec
time to sleep
 

EXAMPLES

shell $> rnews fm shell $> rnews slash  

RCFILE

1)
xml format (prefered)

<rnews> <default shortcut="sl" /> <colors> <text fg="white" bg="black" /> <uri fg="yellow" bg="white" /> <title fg="green" bg="black" /> </colors> <sites>

<site comment="slashdots finest" shortcut="sl" regexp="*/item" >slashdot.org/slashdot.rss<
/site>
<site comment="plattenkritiken" shortcut="lp" >www.laut.de/partner/allgemein/platten.rdf</
site> <site comment="neuigkeiten" shortcut="ln" >www.laut.de/partner/allgemein/news.rdf</site> <site comment="ruby news" shortcut="r" >ruby-lang.org/en/index.rdf</site> </sites> </rnews>

2)
plain format (deprecated)

# - comment empty or lines full of spacecharacter are ignored

short uri_to_rss_file regxp

eg:

    sl slashdot.org/slashdot.rss */item

 

AUTHOR

mathias gumz < gumz at dot minus magdeburg.de >


 

Index

ABOUT
USAGE
OPTIONS
EXAMPLES
RCFILE
AUTHOR

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