SFEED_CONTENT(1)

💖 SFEED_CONTENT(1) 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the sfeed_content glow-up 💅 this is a page from the General Commands Manual and it is literally about viewing your RSS/Atom content as plain text. no cap, it's iconic.

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✨ NAME ✨

sfeed_content — view RSS/Atom content 🦋

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

sfeed_content [file ...]

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🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

so what does it actually do? sfeed_content formats feed data (that's TSV, bestie) from sfeed(1) — either from stdin or for each file — and sends it to stdout as plain-text content. 💖

for HTML content it uses lynx(1) to convert it to plain-text. and at the end? it uses the pager to view the output. main character behaviour honestly. 👑

also lowkey important: the sfeed_content script can be used by sfeed_curses(1) to view content. iykyk.

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🧚 ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES 🧚

• PAGER — the pager used to view the content. if it's not set or it's empty, it will use "less -R" by default. so don't leave it blank and then act surprised, okay? 😭
• SFEED_HTMLCONV — the program used to convert HTML content to plain-text. if it's not set or it's empty, it will use lynx by default. she has a favourite, and it's lynx. 🌈

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⭐ EXIT STATUS ⭐

the sfeed_content utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs. simple. clean. periodt. 💀

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🔥 EXAMPLES 🔥

here's the vibe, bestie:

curl -s 'https://codemadness.org/atom_content.xml' | sfeed | sfeed_content

and the output format will look like this:

Title:     The title.
Author:    The line with the author if it is set.
Category:  The line with the categories if it is set.
Link:      The line with the link if it is set.
Enclosure: The line with the enclosure if it is set.

The content converted to plain-text.

<form feed character> if there are multiple items.

yes the <form feed character> is literally in there. she's the separator between multiple items and she ate. 🍓

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

awk(1), less(1), lynx(1), sfeed_curses(1) — go read those too, they're all slaying in their own lanes. 💜

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🫶 AUTHORS 🫶

Hiltjo Posthuma <hiltjo@codemadness.org> — literal legend, we stan. 🌟

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ngl that's the whole page. every flag, every variable, every default, all of it, preserved with love and a little glitter. ✨

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and that's a wrap, bestie!! 🎀 this page shipped with Debian, dated February 7, 2026 — put it in your calendar, it's a whole moment. 💖🦋✨