Here is a bash script that might be of help:

--------8<-------- #!/bin/bash

CAT=/usr/bin/cat RM=/usr/bin/rm WGET=/usr/bin/wget GREP=/usr/bin/grep

VERBOSE=1

# change these to suit your taste OUTPUT=${HOME}/MySatellites.tle MATCH=${HOME}/Sats_I_Like.txt

# delete existing output file if [ -f ${OUTPUT} ]; then [[ $%{VERBOSE} ]] && echo "Deleting ${OUTPUT}" ${RM} ${OUTPUT}; fi

# heredoc contains URLs of interest. Edit to suit yourself [[ $%{VERBOSE} ]] && echo "Fetching elements from www.celestrack.com" ${CAT} << EOF | while read URL http://www.celestrak.com/NORAD/elements/amateur.txt http://www.celestrak.com/NORAD/elements/weather.txt http://www.celestrak.com/NORAD/elements/visual.txt EOF do [[ $%{VERBOSE} ]] && echo "-- ${URL}"

${WGET} -q ${URL} -O - | ${GREP} -A 2 -f ${MATCH} >> ${OUTPUT} done

[[ $%{VERBOSE} ]] && echo "Done."

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This will fetch one or more element files from celestrack (you say which URLs to use in the heredoc) and pick out satellites of interest to you by name, combining the results into a single output file. You specify the satellites you want in a match-file (name defined at the top of the script) and similarly the name of the file where you want the results put.

Two cautions: 1) be careful with your matches. "AO-7" matches with "AO-71" too. And 2) if a satellite appears in more than one input file, it will appear more than once in the output. (Example, ISS (ZARYA) appears in amateur.txt and visual.txt.)

You could change a few things -- select by satellite number & designator rather than name, for instance, or read URLs from an external file. Or have the heredoc also specify the name of the output file for each input URL. But for anything much fancier than this (like sorting the output by satellite name, skipping duplicates, anything but the simplest of command-line arguments, etc) I'd go with a perl script.

On 03/13/2013 03:00 AM, PE0SAT | Amateur Radio wrote:

Hi Gus,

As I mentioned "I thought to give the list a try before if go the script way"

Do you have such a script?

Make an input variable with the desired SATS read from input files and output to my own output file that I can use with my favorite tracking software.

73 Jan PE0SAT

On 12-03-2013 23:22, Gus wrote:

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What exactly do you need to do?

Download the elements from celestrack with wget or Perl's LWP::Simple. Use grep with the --files option to select satellites of interest and write them out to whatever destination you want. What else do you need?

A modest Perl script would go a long way...

On 03/12/2013 05:29 PM, PE0SAT | Amateur Radio wrote:

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Hi,

Thanks for reading this message.

Can somebody help me with a command line Kepler manager for Unix?

The idea is to create my own TLE files where source files come from Celes-track and Space-track.

I thought to give the list a try before if go the script way ;)

73 Jan PE0SAT