CROSSBOW(1)              General Commands Manual (urm)             CROSSBOW(1)

NAME
     crossbow ? The minimalist feed aggregator

SYNOPSIS
     crossbow command [options ...]

DESCRIPTION
     crossbow is a minimalist RSS/Atom feed aggregator written in C, portable
     across UNIX-like systems.

     Instead of implementing periodic timers and running in background,
     crossbow is designed to be invoked periodically by cron(8).

     On a system where local mail delivery is configured, the output of a cron
     job is mailed to the owner of the crontab.  crossbow therefore needs no
     other user interface than the regular UNIX command line and a local mail
     user agent, such as mutt(1).

     crossbow is composed by a collection of sub-commands:

     crossbow-set(1)     Registers a feed for monitoring, or updates the
                         configuration for a previously registered feed.

     crossbow-fetch(1)   Retrieves updates from each monitored feed,
                         processing previously unseen items.

     crossbow-query(1)   Prints a list of the subscribed feeds.

     crossbow-del(1)     Deletes a URL from the set of monitored feeds.

     See crossbow-cookbook(7) for a quick tour among the capabilities of
     crossbow

ENVIRONMENT
     CROSSBOW_VAR
           Overrides the directory where state information is stored,
           otherwise defaulting to ~/.crossbow

FILES
     ~/.crossbow
           Directory for variable state information.  It is created by
           crossbow-set(1), while any other crossbow command expect it to
           exist.

           This path can be changed by setting the CROSSBOW_VAR environment
           variable.

SEE ALSO
     crossbow-del(1), crossbow-fetch(1), crossbow-query(1), crossbow-set(1),
     crossbow-outfmt(5), crossbow-cookbook(7), cron(8)

AUTHORS
     Giovanni Simoni <dacav@fastmail.com>

                                 June 27, 2020