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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 [options] -- [moduleoptions] short|uri_of_rss_file

OPTIONS

--help: -h display help
--longhelp: -H display longhelp
--version: -v display version
--stdin: -s use stdin as input
--list: -l list available shortcuts
--config: -f rcfile configfile to use
--cache: -c cachfile cachfile to use
--no-cache: -n dont use a cachefile
--module: -m module rnews-module

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/.rnews/rc.xml :

    <rnews>
        <modules>
            <textout>
                <default>sl</default>
                <order>id</order>
                <textwidth>75</textwidth>
                <colors>
                    <text fg="white" bg="black" />
                    <uri fg="yellow" bg="white" />
                    <title fg="green" bg="black" />
                </colors>
            </textout>
        </modules>
        <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>

FILES

$HOME/.rnews/rc.xml - configfile

/$HOME/.rnews/cache: - cache-file

AUTHOR

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

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