diff --git a/scripts/summarizecave.sh b/scripts/summarizecave.sh
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+#get .3d file contents using survex parser
+>&2 echo "Processing: $1"
+
+summary=$(cavern "./$1/$1.svx" -o "./$1/$1.3d")
+contents=`dump3d -d ./$1/$1.3d`
+
+if [[ "$2" = "--verbose" ]]; then
+    echo "Processing file: ./$1/$1.3d" 
+fi
+
+#find most recent leg
+lastdate=$(echo "$contents" | grep ^LINE | rev | cut -f1 -d " " | rev | grep [1234567890.-] | sort | tail -n1)
+
+if [[ "$2" = "--verbose" ]]; then
+    echo "Cave last visited on: $lastdate"
+fi
+
+#find all legs done most recently
+lastlegs=$(echo "$contents" | grep ^LINE | grep "$lastdate")
+
+#find last survey full name
+lastsurvey=$(echo "$lastlegs" | grep -o '\[.*\]' | sort | uniq | tr -d "[" | tr -d "]" | tail -n1)
+
+#find last survey name
+lastsurvey=$(echo "$lastsurvey" | rev | cut -f1 -d "." | rev)
+
+#find deepest point of most revent survey
+lastdepth=$(echo "$lastlegs" | cut -f4 -d " " | tr -d "m" | sort -n | tail -n1)
+
+#find file containing last survey
+lastfile="./"$(grep -ril "begin ****$lastsurvey" "$1" | tail -n1)
+
+#display results
+if [[ "$2" = "--verbose" ]]; then
+    echo "Last visit on survey name:"
+    echo "$lastsurvey"
+    echo "Located in the file:"
+    echo "$lastfile"
+fi
+
+#find team members of last survey
+visitors=$(cat "$lastfile" | grep team | cut -f2- -d " " | tr "\n" "\t")
+
+#find total length from summary
+leng=$(echo "$summary" | grep "Total length of survey legs" | tr -s " " |cut -f7 -d " ")
+
+#find vertical span from summary
+vert=$(echo "$summary" | grep "Vertical range" | cut -f4 -d " ")
+
+#renaming
+cavename="$1"
+cavedepth="$vert"
+cavelength="$leng"
+lastdate="$lastdate"
+lastdepth="$lastdepth"
+lastpeople="$visitors"
+lastfile="$lastfile"
+
+
+#output
+if [[ "$2" == "--table" ]]; then
+    echo "<tr>"
+    
+    echo "<td>$cavename</td>"
+    echo "<td>$cavedepth</td>"
+    echo "<td>$cavelength</td>"
+    echo "<td>$lastdate</td>"
+    echo "<td>$lastpeople</td>"
+    echo "<td>$lastdepth</td>"
+    echo "<td>$lastfile</td>"
+    
+    echo "</tr>"
+
+else	  
+    echo "Last surveyed leg on:"
+    echo "Date, Survex file, Depth"
+    echo "$lastdate $lastdepth $lastfile"
+
+    echo "Last visited by:"
+    echo "$lastpeople"
+
+    echo "Total length:"
+    echo "$cavelength"
+
+    echo "Total depth:"
+    echo "$cavedepth"
+    echo ""
+    echo ""
+fi