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crossbow-fetch
—
Request, parse and process all registered feeds
crossbow fetch |
[-d ] [-h ]
[-i identifier]
[-v ] |
The crossbow-fetch
command is part of
crossbow(1), the cron(8)-friendly RSS
aggregator. It is responsible for retrieving, parsing, and processing all
new items of the tracked feeds. In order to be tracked, a feed must be
registered via crossbow-set(1).
If crossbow-fetch
is invoked without
options all registered feeds are updated. By supplying an
identifier via the -i
flag,
only the corresponding feed is updated.
A feed is updated by the following sequence of actions:
-d
), the updated
set is stored in place of the previous, so it can be used for the same
comparison on the next execution.-d
crossbow-fetch
will not
store updates in the
save-file.
This is useful when testing connectivity or the configuration of the feed.
It is worth noting that, even though -d
stands for
dry-run,
the subproc
and pipe
output modes will still result in the execution of the supplied
sub-command. See crossbow-set(1)-h
-i
identifier-v
Place this string in your crontab in oroder to check for updates from all feeds every two hours.
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If the local mail is configured properly, the output produced by the invocation should be delivered in the user's mailbox.
crossbow(1), crossbow-del(1), crossbow-query(1), crossbow-set(1), crossbow-outfmt(5)
June 15, 2020 |