tv_split - Split XMLTV listings into separate files by date and channel.
tv_split --output TEMPLATE [FILE...]
Read XMLTV listings and split them into some number of output files. The output
file chosen for each programme is given by substitutions on the filename
template supplied. You can split listings by time and by channel.
The TEMPLATE is a filename but substitutions are applied: first
%channel is replaced with the id of a programme's
channel, and then Date::Manip substitutions (which broadly follow
date(1)) are applied based on the start time of each programme. In
this way each programme is written to a particular output file. When an
output file is created it will also contain all the channel elements from
the input.
One or more input files can be given; if more than one then they
are concatenated in the same way as tv_cat. If no input files are given then
standard input is read.
Use "tv_split --output %channel-%Y%m%d.xml" to
separate standard input into separate files for each day and channel. The
files will be created with names like bbc1.bbc.co.uk-20020330.xml.