mbm_makedatalist
Section:  MB-System 5.0  (1)
Updated:  3 June 2013 
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NAME

mbm_makedatalist - Macro to generate a datalist of the swath
files in a specified directory.

 
VERSION

Version 5.0

 
SYNOPSIS

mbm_makedatalist [-Idirectory -Odatalist -H -V]

 
DESCRIPTION

Mbm_makedatalist is a macro to generate an MB-System
datalist file referencing all identifiable swath files in
the specified target directory.

The output datalist will be placed in the current working
directory. The output datalist is named datalist.mb-1
by default, but can be specified with the -O option.
If no target directory is specified with the -I
option, then the current working directory is used. In order
for swath files to be recognized and included in the datalist,
they must conform to the MB-System swath file naming convention
(see the mbsystem manual page for details).

 
AUTHORSHIP

David W. Caress (caress@mbari.org)




  Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute



Dale N. Chayes (dale@ldeo.columbia.edu)




  Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

 
OPTIONS


-H


This "help" flag cause the program to print out a description
of its operation and then exit immediately.
-I


directory



Sets the path of the target directory.
-O


datalist



Sets the name of the output datalist file. Default: datalist.mb-1
-V


The -V option causes mbm_makedatalist to print out status messages.


 
EXAMPLES

Suppose we have a set of swath files in a directory and we
want to construct a datalist referring to those files. A simple
directory listing shows four files:




        20051019_154030.mb88


        20051019_162540.mb88


        20051019_171756.mb88


        junk.txt




of which three are identifiable as swath files because of the
".mb88" file suffix. Running mbm_makedatalist in this
directory with no arguments other than verbosity:




        mbm_makedatalist -V




produces a datalist file named datalist.mb-1. The contents of
this file are:




        ./20051019_154030.mb88 88


        ./20051019_162540.mb88 88


        ./20051019_171756.mb88 88




where the file junk.txt has been ignored.

 
SEE ALSO

mbsystem(1), mbdatalist(1), mbinfo(1)

 
BUGS

This macro doesn't yet recognize when one swath file derives from
another (e.g. line1p.mb57 can be inferred to be a processed
version of line1.mb57).



 
Index

NAME

VERSION

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

AUTHORSHIP

OPTIONS

EXAMPLES

SEE ALSO

BUGS

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