At 11:46 PM -0500 6/16/11, George Henry wrote:
I used to use a program called NASAWASH. You set up a "mysats" file that specifies which birds you are interested in, and then you can set up a batch file that will automatically parse whatever input file you specify (like nasa.all) and output the filtered results to the filename and location that you specified.
I'm the author of NASAWASH. It doesn't have that feature, though it would be a good starting point for a C programmer wishing to create such a program. If somebody added that feature already, I'm not aware of it (and the version on the AMSAT web/ftp site doesn't include it). Perhaps you're thinking of some other program you used in conjunction with NASAWASH?
If you have (or install yourself) a reasonably standard "grep" program (such as the one at http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/grep.htm ) you can write a simple batch file script like this, assuming that you've already downloaded the elements from your favorite source to a file named inputfile:
nasawash inputfile nasabare.txt grep -A 2 AO-51 nasabare.txt >mynasa.txt grep -A 2 FO-29 nasabare.txt >>mynasa.txt grep -A 2 AO-07 nasabare.txt >>mynasa.txt grep -A 2 SO-67 nasabare.txt >>mynasa.txt
The "-A 2" tells grep to output the matching line and two lines following. The NASAWASH step is optional if the file you download contains nothing but the element sets.
73 -Paul kb5mu@amsat.org