Many of the command line programs that are part of datatools use command line options. These have largely been standardized. Here’s a list of common options and their general roles.
options | description |
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-h, -help | display help |
-v, -version | display version |
-l, -license | display license |
-i, -input |
read from this input file, to read from standard input use -i
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-o, -output | write to this output file |
-quiet | suppress error messages |
options | description |
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-nl,-newline | if true add a trailing newline, if false suppress it |
-d, -delimiter | for those commands that support setting delimiters |
-od, -output-delimiter | for those commands that support output delimiters |
-s, -start | for start times and indexe values |
-e, -end | for end times and indexe values |
-E, -expression | for expressions used by programs, e.g. filter expressions |