weatherrc5

Overview

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.