cattools_lc(1) --- Imcat Users Guide --- section: cattools_lc --- last changed: Thu Jul 10 HST


NAME

cattools_lc - cattools_lc tools section

DESCRIPTION

'lc' is a general purpose catalogue filter. It uses a reverse polish notation syntax to allow you to generate complicated operations on the command line. It is similar in some ways to 'awk', but much more efficient as it allows binary format catalogues. lc can be very useful is invoked as a filter to pipe catalogue data into and out of c-progs or perl-scripts.

COMMANDS

lc - list and process catalogues of objects
makegridcat - generate catalogue containing a grid of points
makerandcat - generate catalogue containing random values

AUTHOR

Nick Kaiser -- kaiser@hawaii.edu

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