How to Make my harvest list: Input is a text file of site acronym, docid, revision. build this from a list of docids: tr '.' ' '< ../20140310_EML/docid_list.txt | tr '-' ' ' | cut -d' ' -f3-5 > prefix_docid_rev_20140317.txt run the command: ./make_my_harvest_list.sh < prefix_docid_rev_20140317.txt harvest_list_20140317.xml Edit the vars to create URLs. for 20140314, it was the path (new date) and the filename prefix (knb-lter-sbc, instead of sbc-metabase) Move the harvest list to where you want it, usually a dir up from the EML.