howto update feed

I am using the importfeed [1] functionality.

How am I supposed to update the feed/feeds?

I understand that running

cd annex; git annex importfeed http://url/to/podcast

a second time will 'do the right thing'. But that is cumbersome as I have to know the url again. Is there sth like git annex updatefeeds?

[1] http://joeyh.name/blog/entry/git-annex_as_a_podcatcher/

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comment 1

I have purposefully kept a list of feeds out of git-annex. I handle this by having a feeds file, which I check into git. Then a cron job runs: xargs git-annex importfeed < feeds

Comment by joeyh.name — Mon Aug 26 18:11:07 2013

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comment 2

Thanks for that. I'll do the same ;-)

Comment by ringprince — Mon Aug 26 19:04:21 2013

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comment 3

One thing I do slightly differently is put comments in my feeds file so I know what feed is what...

# NPR - Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!
http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast.php?id=35
# NPR - Car Talk
http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast.php?id=510208

Then I use

grep -v '^#' feeds| xargs git-annex importfeed --relaxed

I reckon that makes maintenance easier.

Comment by a-or-b [myopenid.com] — Wed Aug 28 01:32:38 2013

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Yet another solution, keeping it all in one script

#!/bin/sh

while IFS= read line
do
        test -n "${line%%#*}" && echo git annex importfeed --relaxed "$line"
done <<EOF
# FooCast - Alice & Bob
http://feeds.foo.com/foocast
# FrobCast
http://meep.moop.com/feed
EOF

Comment by arand — Sun Sep 1 18:06:51 2013

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