NAME¶
tv_cat - Concatenate XMLTV listings files.
SYNOPSIS¶
tv_cat [--help] [--output FILE] [FILE...]
DESCRIPTION¶
Read one or more XMLTV files and write a file to standard ouput whose programmes
are the concatenation of the programmes in the input files, and whose channels
are the union of the channels in the input files.
--output FILE write to FILE rather than standard output
The treatment of programmes and channels is slightly different because for
programmes, the ordering is important (typically programmes are processed or
displayed in the same order as they appear in the input) whereas channels are
just a set indexed by channel id. There is a warning if channel details clash
for the same id.
One more wrinkle is the credits (source, generator and so on), they are taken
from one of the files and then there's a warning if the other files differ. If
two input files have different character encodings, then it is not meaningful
to combine their data (without recoding or other processing) and tv_cat die
with an error message.
This tool is rather useless, but it makes a good testbed for the XMLTV module.
SEE ALSO¶
xmltv(5).
AUTHOR¶
Ed Avis, ed@membled.com