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NAME¶
stilts-tcopy - Converts between table formatsSYNOPSIS¶
stilts tcopy [in=<table>] [out=<out-table>] [ifmt=<in-format>] [ofmt=<out-format>]
DESCRIPTION¶
tcopy is a table copying tool. It simply copies a table from one place to another, but since you can specify the input and output formats as desired, it works as a converter from any of the supported input formats to any of the supported output formats.tcopy is just a stripped-down version of tpipe - it doesn't do anything that tpipe can't, but the usage is slightly simplified. It is provided as a drop-in replacement for the old tablecopy (uk.ac.starlink.table.TableCopy) tool which was supplied with earlier versions of STIL and TOPCAT - it has the same arguments and behaviour as tablecopy, but is implemented somewhat differently and will in some cases be more efficient.
OPTIONS¶
- in=<table>
- A filename.
- A URL.
- The special value "-", meaning standard input. In this case the input format must be given explicitly using the ifmt parameter. Note that not all formats can be streamed in this way.
- A system command line with either a "<" character at the start, or a "|" character at the end ("<syscmd" or "syscmd|"). This executes the given pipeline and reads from its standard output. This will probably only work on unix-like systems.
- out=<out-table>
- ifmt=<in-format>
- ofmt=<out-format>
SEE ALSO¶
stilts(1)If the package stilts-doc is installed, the full documentation
SUN/256 is available in HTML format:
file:///usr/share/doc/stilts-doc/sun256/index.html
VERSION¶
STILTS version 3.1-5-debianThis is the Debian version of Stilts, which lack the support of
some file formats and network protocols. For differences see
file:///usr/share/doc/stilts/README.Debian
AUTHOR¶
Mark Taylor (Bristol University)Mar 2017 |