This is the command tv_catp that can be run in the OnWorks free hosting provider using one of our multiple free online workstations such as Ubuntu Online, Fedora Online, Windows online emulator or MAC OS online emulator
PROGRAM:
NAME
tv_cat - Concatenate XMLTV listings files.
SYNOPSIS
tv_cat [--help] [--utf8] [--output FILE] [FILE...]
DESCRIPTION
Read one or more XMLTV files and write a file to standard output whose programmes are the
concatenation of the programmes in the input files, and whose channels are the union of
the channels in the input files.
--output FILE write to FILE rather than standard output
The treatment of programmes and channels is slightly different because for programmes, the
ordering is important (typically programmes are processed or displayed in the same order
as they appear in the input) whereas channels are just a set indexed by channel id. There
is a warning if channel details clash for the same id.
One more wrinkle is the credits (source, generator and so on), they are taken from one of
the files and then there's a warning if the other files differ. If two input files have
different character encodings, then it is not meaningful to combine their data (without
recoding or other processing) and tv_cat die with an error message.
But if you do want to combine multiple input files with different character encodings then
you can use the --utf8 command-line parameter which will create a combined output file in
UTF-8 format. (Note: it is not safe to combine mixed encodings to anything other than
UTF-8 so no other output encoding is provided for.) (Note 2: any input file which does not
have an encoding specified in the xml tag is not only naughty but is assumed to already be
UTF-8, which may not be true!)
This tool is rather useless, but it makes a good testbed for the XMLTV module.
Use tv_catp online using onworks.net services
