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<div class="">I believe what you need is something like this….</div>
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">find /data/vlf_32k -type f -mtime +50 > myfiles</span></div>
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">Ouputs to a file called myfiles.</span></div>
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">/data/vlf_32k/220904-144416</span></div>
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">Next, we need to encode those files to flac to the archive directory:</span></div>
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">set inputFile [open "myfiles" "r"]</span></div>
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">while {![eof $inputFile]} {</span></div>
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> set length [gets $inputFile oneLine]</span></div>
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> vtflac -e /data/$oneLine > /mnt/archive/$inputFile.fx</span></div>
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">close inputFile</span></div>
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">set inputFile [open "myfiles" "r"]</span></div>
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">Finally, delete the original files:</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">while {![eof $inputFile]} {</span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> set length [gets $inputFile oneLine]</span></div>
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I have written a few scripts and refer to a book on TCL or “Tickel Language”:</div>
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TCL/TK A Developers Guide by Cliffords Flynt.</div>
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If this does not work for you I have written some C code that collects a list of FITs filenames from a directory and opens them them check the byte count looking for missing pixels.</div>
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I would be willing to share this code with you. Then you could use it an an example to do your job in c and call this program from the crontab.</div>
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PS I have downloaded the vlfrx-tools and installed it on the pi. I will be testing with this code and see what I can find. Thanks for you input and the graphs. It looks like your signals are clean so my main issue may be noise.</div>
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