checkforstar

This does not work if you have a single monolithic *.sum file with all your data! (Eg. how you dowload data from the PTI archive...)

In the directory where you keep your PTI archive data, create a file called //checkforstar.batx//, and paste into it the following line:

//grep -c $1 97/*.sum 98/*.sum 99/*.sum 100/*.sum 101/*.sum 102/*.sum 103/*.sum 104/*.sum 105/*.sum 106/*.sum | grep -v ':0'//

Modify this as appropriate: for example, if your sumfile(s) is not distributed into many subdirectories (in the above case, 97/ 98/ 99/ etc.), replace that portion of the line with the appropriate subdirectory name.

When done, this command will tell you how many scans per night are found for a given star, eg:

//$ ./checkforstar.batx HDC85503//

will output:

//103/103336.sum:24 104/104008.sum:25 104/104009.sum:21 104/104013.sum:20 104/104040.sum:15 104/104071.sum:51 104/104072.sum:30 104/104078.sum:20 104/104081.sum:20 104/104335.sum:15 104/104338.sum:15 104/104339.sum:20 104/104347.sum:20 105/105105.sum:20//