NAME¶

sfeed_plain — format feed data to a plain-text list

SYNOPSIS¶

DESCRIPTION¶

sfeed_plain formats feed data (TSV) from sfeed(1) from stdin or for each file to stdout as a plain-text list. If one or more file arguments are specified then the basename of the file is used as the feed name in the output. If no file arguments are specified and so the data is read from stdin then the feed name is empty.

Items with a timestamp from the last day compared to the system time at the time of formatting are marked as new. This value might be overridden through environment variables. Items are marked as new with the prefix "N" at the start of the line.

sfeed_plain aligns the output. It shows a maximum of 70 column-wide characters for the title and outputs an ellipsis symbol if the title is longer and truncated. Make sure the environment variable LC_CTYPE is set to a UTF-8 locale, so it can determine the proper column-width per rune, using mbtowc(3) and wcwidth(3).

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES¶

SFEED_NEW_AGE

Overwrite the maximum age in seconds to mark feeds as new. By default this is 86400, which equals one day.

EXIT STATUS¶

The sfeed_plain utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.

EXAMPLES¶

curl -s 'https://codemadness.org/atom.xml' | sfeed | sfeed_plain

SEE ALSO¶

sfeed(1), sfeed_html(1), sfeed(5)

AUTHORS¶

Hiltjo Posthuma <hiltjo@codemadness.org>