3 rawdog \- an RSS Aggregator Without Delusions Of Grandeur
8 This manual page briefly documents the
12 \fBrawdog\fP is an RSS (and other) feed aggregator, based on Mark
13 Pilgrim's flexible feed parser. \fBrawdog\fP reads articles from a
14 number of feeds and writes out a single HTML file, based on a template
15 either provided by the user or generated by rawdog, containing the
16 latest articles it's seen.
18 This program follows the usual GNU command line syntax, with long
19 options starting with two dashes (`\-'). A summary of options is
20 included below. For a complete description, see the README file.
23 .BI \-d \ DIR\fP, \ \-\-dir \ DIR
26 instead of the $HOME/.rawdog directory.
28 .B \-N, \-\-no\-locking
29 Do not lock the state file.
32 Print more detailed status information.
34 .B \-W, \-\-no\-lock\-wait
35 Exit silently if the state file is locked.
37 \fBrawdog\fP will perform these actions in the order given.
39 .BI \-a \ URL\fP, \ \-\-add \ URL
40 Try to find a feed associated with
42 and add it to the config file.
44 .BI \-c \ FILE\fP, \ \-\-config \ FILE
47 as an additional config file; any options provided in
49 will override those set in the main config file (with the exception of
50 "feed", which is cumulative).
52 may be an absolute path or a path relative to your .rawdog directory.
53 Note that $HOME/.rawdog/config will still be read first even if you
56 .BI \-f \ URL\fP, \ \-\-update\-feed \ URL
57 Update the feed pointed to by
59 immediately, even if its period hasn't elapsed since it was last
63 List feeds known at the time of last update.
65 .BI \-r \ URL\fP, \ \-\-remove \ URL
70 .B \-t, \ \-\-show\-template
73 currently in use to stdout.
75 .B \-T, \ \-\-show\-itemtemplate
78 currently in use to stdout.
81 Fetch data from the feeds and store it. This could take some time if
82 you've got lots of feeds.
85 Write out the HTML output file.
87 If one of these options is specified, \fBrawdog\fP will perform only
88 that action, then exit.
91 Provide a brief summary of all the options rawdog supports.
93 .BI \-\-upgrade \ OLDDIR\ NEWDIR
94 Import feed state from rawdog 1.x directory
96 into rawdog 2.x directory
99 \fBrawdog\fP is typically invoked from
103 entry would fetch data from feeds and write it to HTML once an hour,
104 exiting if \fBrawdog\fP is already running:
108 0 * * * * rawdog -Wvw
116 rawdog was mostly written by Adam Sampson <ats@offog.org>, with
117 contributions and bug reports from many of rawdog's users.
118 See rawdog's NEWS file for a complete list of contributors.
120 This manual page was originally written by Decklin Foster
121 <decklin@red\-bean.com>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).