Extract an station's history from GSOD

extract.sh

#!/bin/bash

# TODO the station code should be an argument
# also I just ran this as one line so it might not even work as a script

# GSOD: http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/res40.pl?page=gsod.html

for i in gsod_199*.tar; 
  do y=`echo $i | awk -F '_' '{print $2}' | awk -F '.' '{print $1}'`; 
  echo working on $i $y; 
  tar -xvf $i 037720-99999-$y.op.gz; 
done