mirror of
https://github.com/Ponce/slackbuilds
synced 2024-11-29 13:00:32 +01:00
20 lines
1.3 KiB
Text
20 lines
1.3 KiB
Text
This command-line utility is intended to provide quick access to current
|
|
weather conditions and forecasts. Presently, it is capable of returning
|
|
data for localities throughout the USA by retrieving and formatting decoded
|
|
METARs (Meteorological Aerodrome Reports) from NOAA (the USA National Oceanic
|
|
and Atmospheric Administration) and forecasts from NWS (the USA National
|
|
Weather Service). The tool is written to function in the same spirit as
|
|
other command-line informational utilities like cal(1), calendar(1) and
|
|
dict(1). It can retrieve arbitrary weather data via specific command-line
|
|
switches (station ID, city, state), or aliases can be configured system wide
|
|
and on a per-user basis. It can be freely used and redistributed under the
|
|
terms of a BSD-like License.
|
|
|
|
*SPECIAL NOTE*
|
|
This will copy the existing "/usr/bin/weather" script on the system (which
|
|
is part of the "expect" package in Slackware) to "/usr/bin/weather.expect"
|
|
while installing the one in this package as "/usr/bin/weather.weather" and
|
|
creating a symlink to it from /usr/bin/weather. If you remove this package
|
|
later for whatever reason, then you will need to either reinstall Slackware's
|
|
"expect" package, fix the symlink, or remove the symlink and rename the
|
|
"/usr/bin/weather.expect" file back to "/usr/bin/weather"
|