B Command Reference

This appendix provides the reference documentation for the commands in the package. For each one a description of its purpose, a list of its command-line arguments, and some examples are given.

• B.1 calc: Evaluates expressions
• B.2 cdsskymatch: Crossmatches table on sky position against VizieR/SIMBAD table
• B.3 coneskymatch: Crossmatches table on sky position against remote cone service
• B.4 datalinklint: Validates DataLink documents
• B.5 funcs: Browses functions used by algebraic expression language
• B.6 pixfoot: Generates Multi-Order Coverage maps
• B.7 pixsample: Samples from a HEALPix pixel data file
• B.8 plot2plane: Draws a plane plot
• B.9 plot2sky: Draws a sky plot
• B.10 plot2cube: Draws a cube plot
• B.11 plot2sphere: Draws a sphere plot
• B.12 plot2time: Draws a time plot
• B.13 plot2d: Old-style 2D Scatter Plot
• B.14 plot3d: Old-style 3D Scatter Plot
• B.15 plothist: Old-style Histogram
• B.16 regquery: Queries the VO registry
• B.17 server: Runs an HTTP server to perform STILTS commands
• B.18 sqlclient: Executes SQL statements
• B.19 sqlskymatch: Crossmatches table on sky position against SQL table
• B.20 sqlupdate: Updates values in an SQL table
• B.21 taplint: Tests TAP services
• B.22 tapquery: Queries a Table Access Protocol server
• B.23 tapresume: Resumes a previous query to a Table Access Protocol server
• B.24 tapskymatch: Crossmatches table on sky position against TAP table
• B.25 tcat: Concatenates multiple similar tables
• B.26 tcatn: Concatenates multiple tables
• B.27 tcopy: Converts between table formats
• B.28 tcube: Calculates N-dimensional histograms
• B.29 tloop: Generates a single-column table from a loop variable
• B.30 tjoin: Joins multiple tables side-to-side
• B.31 tmatch1: Performs a crossmatch internal to a single table
• B.32 tmatch2: Crossmatches 2 tables using flexible criteria
• B.33 tmatchn: Crossmatches multiple tables using flexible criteria
• B.34 tmulti: Writes multiple tables to a single container file
• B.35 tmultin: Writes multiple processed tables to single container file
• B.36 tpipe: Performs pipeline processing on a table
• B.37 tskymap: Calculates sky density maps
• B.38 tskymatch2: Crossmatches 2 tables on sky position
• B.39 votcopy: Transforms between VOTable encodings
• B.40 votlint: Validates VOTable documents