NAME

news - print news items

SYNOPSIS

news [-a] [-n] [-s] [items]

DESCRIPTION

The news command prints files from the systems news directory that have been added or modified since its previous invocation, preceded by a header, starting with the most recent file.

It accepts the following options:

-a: Print all files in the system news directory. The recorded time of the previous invocation is not changed.
-n: Print only the names of added or modified files. The recorded time of the previous invocation is not changed.
-s: Print only the count of added or modified files. The recorded time of the previous invocation is not changed.

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

HOME: User's home directory.

FILES

$HOME/.news_time: The time of the previous invocation is recorded as the modification time of this file.
/var/news: System news directory.