xenial (1) lhapdf-getdata.1.gz

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@gmail.com> for the Debian system (but may  be  used
       by others).