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B.3.2 Help Flag

Running tpipe -help will give the following usage message:

% tpipe -help

Usage: tpipe [-disk] [-debug] [-h[elp]] [-v[erbose]]
             [-ifmt <in-format> [-stream]] <in-table> <mode-flags>
             [<filter-flags>]

   Mode flags - Use one of:
      -write [-ofmt <out-format>] [-o <out-table>]
      -tosql <jdbc-url> [-user <username>] [-password <password>]
      -meta
      -stats
      -count

   Filter flags - Use any sequence of:
      -select <expr>
      -sort [-down] [-nullsfirst] <colid-list>
      -sortexpr <expr>
      -every <step>
      -head <nrows>
      -tail <nrows>
      -addcol [-after <col-id> | -before <col-id>] <col-name> <expr>
      -keepcols <colid-list>
      -delcols <colid-list>
      -explode
      -cache
      -random
      -sequential

   Auto-detected in-formats:
      fits-plus
      fits
      votable

   Known in-formats:
      fits-plus
      fits
      votable
      ascii
      csv
      wdc


This message is generated directly from the code itself, and forms the primary reference documentation. In case of conflict with these notes, the -help output is probably correct. Some more information on the meaning of these arguments is given in the following subsections however.


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Author email: m.b.taylor@bristol.ac.uk
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