Releases to date have been as follows:
stilts
",
invoked using the stilts
script or the
stilts.jar
jar file, and the various tasks are
named as subsequent arguments on the command line.
Command arguments are supplied after that.
The new invocation syntax is described in detail elsewhere in
this document. As well as invocation features such
as improved on-line help, optional prompting,
parameter defaulting, and more uniform access to common features,
this will make it more straightforward to wrap these tasks
for use in non-command-line environments, such as behind a
SOAP or CORBA interface, or in a CEA-like execution environment.
tmatch2
has been introduced.
This provides flexible and efficient crossmatching between
two input tables. Future releases will provide commands for
intra-table and multi-table matching.
tcat
has been introduced, which
allows two tables to be glued together top-to-bottom.
This is currently working but very rudimentary - improvements
will be forthcoming in future releases.
calc
has been introduced,
which performs one-line expression evaluations from the
command line.
tpipe
and other commands have been introduced:
addskycoords
: calculates new
celestial coordinate pair from existing ones
(FK4, FK5, ecliptic, galactic, supergalactic)replacecol
: replaces column data,
using existing metadatabadval
: replaces given 'magic'
value with nullreplaceval
: replaces given 'magic'
value with any specified valuetablename
: edits table nameexplodecols
and explodecols
commands
replace explode
The new stream
parameter of tpipe
now
allows you to write filter commands in an external file, to
facilitate more manageable command lines.
Wildarding for column specification is now allowed for some filter commands.