NEWS(1)

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, in alpine 3.24, arch rolling, nixos 26.05, nixpkgs unstable

💌 NAME 💌

okay so bestie, this is NEWS(1) from the General Commands Manual — the page for news, aka the little command that prints news items. ✨

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

news [ -a ] [ -n ] [ item ...  ]

🗞️ DESCRIPTION 🗞️

Run it with zero options and this simple local news service goes through the files that have appeared in /lib/news since your last reading. It shows the most recent first, and each one gets an appropriate header before it. The time of reading is recorded — yes, it remembers. 💅

The options are:

  • -a — print all items, regardless of currency. The recorded time is not changed. 🫶
  • -n — just report the names of the current items; no contents printed, and the recorded time is not changed. Gossip without the details. 👑

Other arguments select particular news items — so you can ask for specific ones, iykyk. 💖

To post a news item, create a file in /news. That's the whole posting ritual, no cap. 📝

Empty news items, and news items named core or dead.letter are ignored. So don't come for them — they're not showing up. 🙈

📁 FILES 📁

  • /news/* — articles 📰
  • $HOME/lib/newstime — modify time is time news was last read who gets news mailed to them 😭

🧚 SOURCE 🧚

/src/cmd/news.c 💾

okay that's the whole page, bestie! footer sign-off: NEWS(1) — source /src/cmd/news.c, and the original footer has no extra date or version beyond NEWS(1), so that's all we got. periodt. 🫶💖

📦 where this page comes from