RSS and Atom feed tools adhering UNIX philosophy

Zucca

dependencies are almost none
- required:
  - C compiler (C99)
  - libc
- optional
  - make
  - sh
  - awk
  - curl
  - ... etc common cli tools found from practically every installation, see the link at the beginning for more
a joy to use
simple
fast
lightweight

I've just started using them.
I've also added sfeed to my overlay.
I didn't see any package archives for different versions so ebuild pulls everything from git... via git protocol. I didn't see https git link either. :(

I hope someone else founds sfeed useful. ;)
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Ant P. · Watchman Joined: 18 Apr 2009 Posts: 6920

This looks interesting, thanks.

I've tried using net-news/rsstail for this, but its usefulness is limited by pretty-printing that can't be turned off. (also it's at least 4 years out of date and on m-n death row so it probably won't be in portage much longer)

Zucca · Posted: Wed Mar 18, 2020 7:43 pm Post subject:

One tip for you guys and gals: Use #!/usr/bin/sfeed_update as a shebang for your sfeedrc config file(s).
Then it's easy just to create links to /etc/cron.hourly (for example) from the config file(s).
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Zucca · Posted: Wed Mar 18, 2020 10:27 pm Post subject:

... and that is if your cron implementation supports symbolic links inside those directories.
Looks like the cronie doesn't like symlinks by default at least.

EDIT: Yup. It uses run-parts, which don't allow it. Dang it. I guess it is a safety measure.
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