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rnews

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ABOUT

rnews is a small rss/rdf fetcher of newssites as slashdot or freshmeat. it depends on ruby and rexml and makes use of a cachefile for saving newsfeeds for a given cachetime for speedup.

USAGE

rnews [-hvlstn] [-f rcfile] [-c nr,nr] [-S sec] short|uri_of_rss_file

OPTIONS

--help: -h display help
--version: -v display version
--stdin: -s use stdin as input
--list: -l list available shortcuts
--list-colors -C: list available colornames
--titles-only -t: only titles
--mini: -m minimode, titles and urls
--choose: -c nr,nr-nr choose
--no-colors: -n output wihtout colors
--config: -f rcfile configfile to use
--sleep: -S sec time to sleep between 2 calls
--regexp: -r regexp regexp to find the items
--order: -O mode sort-order
--textwidth: -T column textwidth

EXAMPLES

shell $> rnews fm

shell $> rnews -t fm: => only fm-titles
shell $> rnews -c 1-5,7: => news 1,2,3,4,5 and 7

RCFILE

$HOME/.rnewsrc.xml (prefered) :

  <rnews>
    <default shortcut="sl" />
    <options>
      <order>id</order>
      <textwidth>75</textwidth>
    </options>
    <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" 
            cachetime="60">slashdot.org/slashdot.rss</site>
      <site comment="ruby news" 
            shortcut="r" >ruby-lang.org/en/index.rdf</site>
    </sites>
  </rnews>

$HOME/.rnewsrc (deprecated) :

  # - comment
  empty or lines full of spacecharacter are ignored

  short uri_to_rss_file regxp

  eg:

    sl slashdot.org/slashdot.rss */item

FILES

$HOME/.rnewsrc.xml: - configfile
$HOME/.rnewsrc: - configfile (deprecated)
/tmp/rnews.cache: - cache-file

AUTHOR

mathias gumz < gumz at dot cs minus magdeburg.de > falk feuersenger < feuersen at dot cs minus magdeburg.de >

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