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2.4 Application Arguments

The arguments for each application are listed with the command descriptions elsewhere in this document, but some of them are common to most or all of the commands:

-h[elp]
Prints a usage message and exits.
-v[erbose]
May cause more information about progress to be written as the command runs.
-disk
Encourages the command to use temporary files on disk for caching large amounts of data rather than doing it in memory. This is a good flag to try if you are getting OutOfMemoryErrors. This flag is in most cases equivalent to specifying the system property -Dstartable.storage=disk.
-debug
Causes any error messages, which are usually made brief, to be accompanied by a stack trace. If you are reporting a bug (or debugging the code yourself), then you should use this flag to get the most information about what has gone wrong.


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STILTS - Starlink Tables Infrastructure Library Tool Set
Starlink User Note 256
STILTS web page: http://www.starlink.ac.uk/stilts/
Author email: m.b.taylor@bristol.ac.uk