news—prints news items
news [ –a ] [ –n ] [ –s ] [ items ]
news is used to keep the user informed of current events. By convention, these events are described by files in the directory /var/news. When invoked without arguments, news prints the contents of all current files in /var/news, most recent first, with each preceded by an appropriate header.
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