Command Line Interface
The Altair Accelerator products have a rich set of programs that can be run on the shell command line.
Each program performs a specific task and is controlled by a set of command line parameters. The programs provide a usage command when run with a -h parameter as a quick way to understand what each does and what parameters it takes.
This section describes the programs that a user will find useful. There are other programs described in the Developer and Admin manuals that are useful for their situations.
Common Commands
| vovproject | Create, start, enable, stop a project. |
| vovconsole | Start the Graphical User Interface (GUI). |
| vovcheck | Run many checks on the setup of VOV. |
| vls | List the status of the files with respect to the dependency graph. |
| vsc | Show the consequences of changing one node. |
| vsh | Report the history of a file or a job. |
| vsi | Report the basic Information about the graph. |
| vsm | Monitor taskers, jobs, resources. |
| vsr | Issue a retrace request. |
| vst | Show tools executed in the current directory. |
| vsx | Show inputs and outputs of nodes. |
| vsy | Show why a node is not VALID. |
| vsz | Zap away bad nodes. |
Main User Commands
| vovblast | Simultaneously remove and forget files |
| vovbrowser | Report the URL to start the browser interface, including the
right port number for a project. |
| vovbuild | Build complex flows. |
| vovcleandir | Eliminate old log files that are no longer part of the flow. |
| vovfind | Find file nodes in the graph. |
| vovfire | Execute a job "here and now". |
| vovforget | Forget objects in the in-memory database: nodes, sets, users, etc. |
| vovkill | Kill a process and all of its children. |
| vovjobqueue | Show all jobs in the queue. |
| vovrename | Rename nodes in the graph. |
| vovset | Create, edit, forget sets. |
| vovsh | The main client, with extended Tcl interpreter. |
| vovshow | Show things: users, buckets, nodes, sets, etc. |
| vovstop | Stop things: jobs, projects, retraces, ... |
| vovtouch | Toggle status of nodes. |
| vovversion | Show the version of the current installation. |
Other Commands
| vovshowconnection | Show connection path between two nodes in the graph. |
| vovcheckfiles | Force a check of all timestamps. |
| vovflowcompiler | Compile a flow to be included into the Flow Library. |
| vovprop | Add, modify and delete properties on files and jobs. |
| vovrestoretrace | Restore a corrupted graph either from a backup or from a saved copy. |
| vovwait4server | Wait for the server to be operative. |
| vovxrsh | Open a new xterm with the DISPLAY variable
properly set (UNIX only). |
| vovsearchlog | Search log files with a regular expression |