lhapdf-getdata (1) Linux Manual Page
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