txconcat: Concatenate a list of apphot/daophot text databases

Package: ptools

Usage

txconcat textfiles outfile

Parameters

textfiles

The list of APPHOT/DAOPHOT text databases to be concatenated.

outfile

The name of the output APPHOT/DAOPHOT text database.

task = "TASK"

The name of the keywords whose value is the name of the task which wrote the database.

Description

TXCONCAT is a simple task which accepts a list of APPHOT/DAOPHOT text database files and concatenates them into one resultant output file. TXCONCAT checks that all the file are indeed APPHOT/DAOPHOT text database files and that they were all written by the same task before performing the concatenation.

Examples

1. Concatenate a list of DAOPHOT PHOT task result files into a single output file.

pt> txconcat m92r.mag.1,m92r.mag.2,m92r.mag.3 m92rall.mag.1

Time requirements

Bugs

See also

ptools.tbconcat,ptools.pconcat,tables.tmerge,concatenate