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@@ -2,11 +2,11 @@ NAME metar - Trivial weather report SYNOPSIS - metar get - metar print - metar set STATION - metar list [PREFIX] - metar closest [LATITUDE LONGITUDE] [LIST] + metar 'get' + metar 'print' + metar 'set' station + metar 'list' [prefix] + metar 'closest' [latitude longitude] [list] DESCRIPTION metar is a simple utility for find whether stations (hence referred to @@ -27,23 +27,23 @@ ACTIONS (cat ~/.config/metar || cat /etc/metar) 2> /dev/null | head -n 1 - set STATION - Stores the STATION as the METAR station from which weather - reports shall be retrieved. STATION shall be the stations's + set station + Stores the station as the METAR station from which weather + reports shall be retrieved. station shall be the stations's ICAO station identifier. This is equivalent to running - echo STATION > ~/.config/metar + printf '%s\n' station > ~/.config/metar - list [PREFIX] + list [prefix] Print all METAR stations. This can take a very long time. You are strongly encouraged to store the output to a file. For a, not as good, list you can look at http://www.aviationweather.gov/static/adds/metars/stations.txt To speed up the listing process, you can filter the output - by select the PREFIX of the ICAO station identifiers. If you + by select the prefix of the ICAO station identifiers. If you look at the page with the URL above, you will find the prefix - for your country. PREFIX may be a regular expression. These + for your country. prefix may be a regular expression. These regular expressions are listed in <https://github.com/maandree/metar/blob/master/prefixes>. Note however, this list is not guaranteed to be up to date. @@ -52,12 +52,12 @@ ACTIONS name, country, ICAO station identifier, and location. The ICAO station identifier is in parenthesis. - closest [LATITUDE LONGITUDE] [LIST] - Given a LATITUDE and LONGITUDE in decimal format, print the + closest [latitude longitude] [list] + Given a latitude and longitude in decimal format, print the ICAO station identifier of the closest METAR station. If you have already created a list of all stations using the action - list, specify the filename of that list as the LIST argument. - If LATITUDE and LONGITUDE are omitted, ~/.config/geolocation, + list, specify the filename of that list as the list argument. + If latitude and longitude are omitted, ~/.config/geolocation, or /etc/geolocation, is used. FILES |