weatherrc(5)weatherrc(5)NAMEweatherrc - 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 con‐
fig, with the alias name in [] brackets and the associated parame‐
ter/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_warn‐
ing,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://weather.noaa.gov/pub/data/observations/metar/decoded/KRDU.TXT
zone_forecast = http://weather.noaa.gov/pub/data/forecasts/zone/nc/ncz041.txt
[work]
description = Conditions at Work
metar = http://weather.noaa.gov/pub/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 <fungi@yuggoth.org>.
SEE ALSOweather(1)2.0 2012-06-24 weatherrc(5)
