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pixie16 / paass

Pixie Acquisition and Analysis Software Suite
https://pixie16.github.io/paassdoc/
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Run multiple files in batch mode #178

Open tking53 opened 7 years ago

tking53 commented 7 years ago

It would be helpful to be able to pass a cmd file to utkscan from the bash prompt. This way we could scan large numbers of files sequentially. Currently you have to run this from the ncurses interface, which in a screen (or tmux) session becomes completely unreadable.

tking53 commented 7 years ago

An alternative might be to add a flag the prevents zeroing of the histograms when utkscan starts up. So that you can run sequential ./utkscan .. from bash.

spaulaus commented 7 years ago

That's actually the harder of the solutions. Since we're building the HRIBF based his files.

ksmith0 commented 7 years ago

From @spaulaus on #179:

Bash scripts do not need #178 to be finished in order to be useful. You can build multiple ROOT files and chain them together fairly trivially.

And what about damm histograms?

From @spaulaus on #179:

DAMM histograms can also be added together using a program called hisadd.

I do not know why the histograms are zeroed when you start a new scan that would be a question for @cthornsb

cthornsb commented 7 years ago

Out of simplicity, any time I initialize a new histogram I initialize a giant block of zeros. A lot of checks would need to be done to ensure that a new histogram would have exactly the same size and layout as an existing one upon initialization. That feature is not implemented.

spaulaus commented 7 years ago

@cthornsb That makes sense. We're not trying to recreate DAMM here.

@tking53 The solution then would be to use hisadd.

ksmith0 commented 7 years ago

@spaulaus Is this possible now that we have the ability to specify firmware and frequency in a config file? We could have something like:

utkscan -i file1 file2 file 3