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    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

Last Updated: 3 June 2013

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