St_catobs.sh script to help manage observations.

scripts/st_catobs.sh

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+#!/bin/bash
+
+
+# Check obsdir exists
+if [ ! -d $ST_OBSDIR ]; then
+	mkdir $ST_OBSDIR
+fi
+if [ ! -d $ST_OBSDIR/control ]; then
+	mkdir $ST_OBSDIR/control
+fi
+
+# look for observations in every subdir
+# catenate each one to lastobs.txt in obsdir
+find $ST_OBSDIR -iname 'observations.txt' | awk '{printf ("cat %s\n",$1)}' | sh > $ST_OBSDIR/lastobs.txt
+#  and rename each original obs files to *.txt.used
+find $ST_OBSDIR -iname 'observations.txt' | awk '{printf ("mv %s %s.used\n",$1,$1)}' | sh
+
+
+# catenate lastobs.txt to allobs.txt and count the new observations
+cat $ST_OBSDIR/lastobs.txt >> $ST_OBSDIR/allobs.txt
+# count total observations
+NOBS=`cat $ST_OBSDIR/lastobs.txt | wc -l`
+NALLOBS=`cat $ST_OBSDIR/allobs.txt | wc -l`
+
+echo "$NOBS new observations in lastobs.txt, total observations in allobs.txt: $NALLOBS"
+