lhapdf-getdata (1) Linux Manual Page
NAME
lhapdf-getdata – Get PDF sets from the LHAPDF repository
SYNOPSIS
lhapdf-getdata [–main] [–all] [–repo=URL] [–dest=DEST] [–dryrun] <name|number> [<name|number> …]
DESCRIPTION
Grab PDF grid and param files from the LHAPDF repository and install them into the local LHAPDF data directory.
OPTIONS
-h,–help- show this help message and exit
–repo=URL- Base URL of online sets repository (http://www.hepforge.org/archive/lhapdf/pdfsets/current)
–dest=DEST- PDF sets directory to install to (/usr/share/lhapdf/PDFsets)
–all- Get ALL sets (this will be hundreds of megabytes… be careful!)
–list- Just list available files
–force- Overwrite existing files
–dryrun- Don’t actually do any downloading
-Q,–quiet- Suppress normal messages
-V,–verbose- Add extra debug messages
EXAMPLES
- Show all available sets:
- lhapdf-getdata
–list - Get all NNPDF PDFs with pattern matching:
- lhapdf-getdata NNPDF
- Get CTEQ6L1, CTEQ66, MRST-S LO* and LO** PDFs with pattern matching:
- lhapdf-getdata CTEQ6ll CTEQ66 lomod MCal
- Get MSTW2008 68% confidence PDF by full name:
- lhapdf-getdata MSTW2008lo68cl.LHgrid
- See how much downloading would be involved in getting all PDF sets:
- lhapdf-getdata
–all–dryrun - I’m hardcore, give me the whole collection:
- lhapdf-getdata
–all
AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Lifeng Sun <lifongsun [at] gmail.com> for the Debian system (but may be used by others).