NAME
weatherrc - configuration file format for the weather(1) utility
DESCRIPTION
The weatherrc file format is intended to specify a set of aliases by which to group URIs for METAR station conditions and alert/forecast zones, but other command-line options and flags for the weather utility can be specified as well. The file is organized as an INI-format config, with the alias name in [] brackets and the associated parameter/value pairs on following lines. Parameters and their values are separated by = or : characters. Multi-word values do not need quoting. These parameters are supported...
- alert
-
include local alert notices (possible values are False and True or 0 and 1)
- atypes
-
list of alert notification types to display (ex: tornado,urgent_weather_message)
- cache
-
control all caching (possible values are False and True or 0 and 1)
- cache_data
-
control retrieved data caching (possible values are False and True or 0 and 1)
- cache_search
-
control search result caching (possible values are False and True or 0 and 1)
- cacheage
-
duration in seconds to refresh cached data (ex: 900)
- cachedir
-
directory for storing cached searches and data (ex: ~/.weather)
- conditions
-
output current conditions (possible values are False and True or 0 and 1)
- defargs
-
list of default command-line arguments (ex: avl,rdu)
- forecast
-
include a local forecast (possible values are False and True or 0 and 1)
- headers
-
list of conditions headers to display (ex: temperature,wind)
- imperial
-
filter/convert conditions for US/UK units (possible values are False and True or 0 and 1)
- metric
-
filter/convert conditions for metric units (possible values are False and True or 0 and 1)
- quiet
-
skip preambles and don't indent (possible values are False and True or 0 and 1)
- setpath
-
directory search path for correlation sets (ex: .:~/.weather)
- verbose
-
show full decoded feeds (possible values are False and True or 0 and 1)
EXAMPLES
The following is an example ~/.weather/weatherrc defining a couple aliases named home and work to be displayed when running the utility with no aliases specified...
[default] defargs = home,work [home] description = Conditions and Forecast at Home forecast = True metar = http://tgftp.nws.noaa.gov/data/observations/metar/decoded/KRDU.TXT zone_forecast = http://tgftp.nws.noaa.gov/data/forecasts/zone/nc/ncz041.txt [work] description = Conditions at Work metar = http://tgftp.nws.noaa.gov/data/observations/metar/decoded/KGSO.TXT
Now if weather is invoked by itself on the command line, it will output conditions for home and work, and also a forecast for home only.
AUTHOR
Specification and manual written by Jeremy Stanley <[email protected]>.