.\" It was generated by help2man 1.40.4.
.\" then modified by Damien Caliste.
.TH ETSF_IO "1" "November 2011" "etsf_io" "User Commands"
.SH NAME
ETSF_IO library \- manual page for etsf_io command line tool

.SH SYNOPSIS
.B etsf_io
[\fI-h | -a action\fR] [[\fI-i file\fR]...] [[\fI-f flag\fR]...]
[\-o file] [arguments]

.SH DESCRIPTION
.PP
Handle ETSF files, see \fB\-\-action\fR option.
.PP
\fB\-h\fR \fB\-\-help\fR             : show this little help.
.PP
\fB\-a\fR \fB\-\-action\fR value     : give the action to perform.
.PP
Possible action may be:
.PP
         * 'merge' to gather several files that have been splitted.
.PP
         * 'content' to get the name of specifications the file matches.
.PP
         * 'check' to check the validity of the file against specifications.
.PP
\fB\-o\fR \fB\-\-output\-file\fR file : give the path to the output ETSF file.
.PP
\fB\-i\fR \fB\-\-input\-file\fR file  : give the path for an input file.
                        This option can be used one or several times.
.PP
\fB\-l\fR \fB\-\-list\fR             : when action is check, it give the list of available flags.
.PP
\fB\-f\fR \fB\-\-flag\fR value       : give a flag name (get valid names from \fB\-l\fR option).

.SH EXAMPLES
Merge three files, etsf_io \fB\-a\fR merge \fB\-i\fR file1.nc \fB\-i\fR file2.nc
\fB\-i\fR file3.nc \fB\-o\fR output.nc
.PP
Get the contents of file test.nc, etsf_io \fB\-a\fR content test.nc
.PP
Get the list of flags for validity checks, etsf_io \fB\-a\fR check \fB\-l\fR
.PP
Checks with two flags, etsf_io \fB\-a\fR check \fB\-f\fR flag1 \fB\-f\fR flag2 test.nc

.SH AUTHOR
ETSF_IO library was written by Damien Caliste, Valerio Oleva, Yann Pouillon
and Matthieu Verstaete.
.PP
This manual page was written by Damien Caliste <damien.caliste@cea.fr>.