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The command-line interface (CLI) tools allow scripting of various functions performed by the WAE Design GUI, such as import, export, initialization, simulation and optimization. CLI tools can, in some cases, provide additional options that are not available from the GUI, such as network interface tools. This chapter describes the CLI options file and logging levels.
options.txt
file, which can be used to set default options for use by calls to the tools through the CLI or through the GUI. Options for any tool can be invoked by specifying these options at the CLI, or by specifying the options in an options.txt
file. By default, each CLI tool looks for this options file in the $CARIDEN_HOME/etc
directory. A different options file can be specified when calling any of the tools by using the -options-file
option.
Note Options specified at the command-line take precedence over options specified in the options file.
The Options file format consists of zero or more lines of the following form.
<tool-name>:<option>=<option-value>
Here <tool-name>
is the tool name as specified in the table above, <option>
and <option-value>
are an option and its value, specific to that tool.
Lines starting with the character #
are treated as comments and ignored.
If a filename is specified as an parameter to an option in options.txt
using a relative path or without a path, the path will be relative to the directory in which the tool is called, and not the directory containing the options.txt
file.
When tools are called through the GUI, the default options displayed in the dialog correspond to the options file settings. Note that changes in the options dialog entries will however remain in effect for the remainder of the session, or until changed.
Options to each command-line tool are available by calling the tool with the -help
option.
Many commands have an option (-verbosity) that controls the level of logging.