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<h3><a name="tpipe-usage">B.35.1 Usage</a></h3>
<p>The usage of <code>tpipe</code> is
<pre>
stilts <stilts-flags> tpipe ifmt=<in-format> istream=true|false cmd=<cmds>
omode=out|meta|stats|count|cgi|discard|topcat|samp|tosql|gui
out=<out-table> ofmt=<out-format>
[in=]<table>
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If you don't have the <code>stilts</code> script installed,
write "<code>java -jar stilts.jar</code>" instead of
"<code>stilts</code>" - see <a href="invoke.html">Section 3</a>.
The available <code><stilts-flags></code> are listed
in <a href="stilts-flags.html">Section 2.1</a>.
For programmatic invocation, the Task class for this
command is <code>uk.ac.starlink.ttools.task.TablePipe</code>.
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<p>Parameter values are assigned on the command line
as explained in <a href="task-args.html">Section 2.3</a>.
They are as follows:
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<dt><strong><code>cmd = <cmds></code> <em>(<a href="http://andromeda.star.bris.ac.uk/starjavadocs/uk/ac/starlink/ttools/filter/ProcessingStep.html">ProcessingStep[]</a>)</em></strong></dt>
<dd>Specifies processing to be performed on
the input table as specified by parameter <code>in</code>,
before any other processing has taken place.
The value of this parameter is one or more of the filter
commands described in <a href="filterSteps.html">Section 6.1</a>.
If more than one is given, they must be separated by
semicolon characters (";").
This parameter can be repeated multiple times on the same
command line to build up a list of processing steps.
The sequence of commands given in this way
defines the processing pipeline which is performed on the table.
<p>Commands may alteratively be supplied in an external file,
by using the indirection character '@'.
Thus a value of "<code>@filename</code>"
causes the file <code>filename</code> to be read for a list
of filter commands to execute. The commands in the file
may be separated by newline characters and/or semicolons.
</p>
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<dt><strong><code>ifmt = <in-format></code> <em>(String)</em></strong></dt>
<dd>Specifies the format of the input table as specified by parameter <code>in</code>.
The known formats are listed in <a href="inFormats.html">Section 5.2.1</a>.
This flag can be used if you know what format your
table is in.
If it has the special value
<code>(auto)</code> (the default),
then an attempt will be
made to detect the format of the table automatically.
This cannot always be done correctly however, in which case
the program will exit with an error explaining which
formats were attempted.
<p>[Default: <code>(auto)</code>]
</p>
</dd>
<dt><strong><code>in = <table></code> <em>(<a href="http://www.starlink.ac.uk/stil/javadocs/uk/ac/starlink/table/StarTable.html">StarTable</a>)</em></strong></dt>
<dd>The location of the input table.
This may take one of the following forms:
<ul>
<li>A filename.</li>
<li>A URL.</li>
<li>The special value "<code>-</code>",
meaning standard input.
In this case the input format must be given explicitly
using the <code>ifmt</code>
parameter.
Note that not all formats can be streamed in this way.
</li>
<li>A system command line with
either a "<code><</code>" character at the start,
or a "<code>|</code>" character at the end
("<code><syscmd</code>" or
"<code>syscmd|</code>").
This executes the given pipeline and reads from its
standard output.
This will probably only work on unix-like systems.
</li>
</ul>
In any case, compressed data in one of the supported compression
formats (gzip, Unix compress or bzip2) will be decompressed
transparently.
</dd>
<dt><strong><code>istream = true|false</code> <em>(Boolean)</em></strong></dt>
<dd>If set true, the input table
specified by the <code>in</code> parameter
will be read as a stream.
It is necessary to give the
<code>ifmt</code> parameter
in this case.
Depending on the required operations and processing mode,
this may cause the read to fail (sometimes it is necessary
to read the table more than once).
It is not normally necessary to set this flag;
in most cases the data will be streamed automatically
if that is the best thing to do.
However it can sometimes result in less resource usage when
processing large files in certain formats (such as VOTable).
<p>[Default: <code>false</code>]
</p>
</dd>
<dt><strong><code>ofmt = <out-format></code> <em>(String)</em></strong></dt>
<dd>Specifies the format in which the output table will be written
(one of the ones in <a href="outFormats.html">Section 5.2.2</a> - matching is
case-insensitive and you can use just the first few letters).
If it has the special value
"<code>(auto)</code>"
(the default),
then the output filename will be
examined to try to guess what sort of file is required
usually by looking at the extension.
If it's not obvious from the filename what output format is
intended, an error will result.
<p>This parameter must only be given if
<code>omode</code>
has its default value of "<code>out</code>".
</p>
<p>[Default: <code>(auto)</code>]
</p>
</dd>
<dt><strong><code>omode = out|meta|stats|count|cgi|discard|topcat|samp|tosql|gui</code> <em>(<a href="http://andromeda.star.bris.ac.uk/starjavadocs/uk/ac/starlink/ttools/mode/ProcessingMode.html">ProcessingMode</a>)</em></strong></dt>
<dd>The mode in which the result table will be output.
The default mode is <code>out</code>, which means that
the result will be written as a new table to disk or elsewhere,
as determined by the <code>out</code> and <code>ofmt</code>
parameters.
However, there are other possibilities, which correspond
to uses to which a table can be put other than outputting it,
such as displaying metadata, calculating statistics,
or populating a table in an SQL database.
For some values of this parameter, additional parameters
(<code><mode-args></code>)
are required to determine the exact behaviour.
<p>Possible values are
<ul>
<li><code>out</code></li>
<li><code>meta</code></li>
<li><code>stats</code></li>
<li><code>count</code></li>
<li><code>cgi</code></li>
<li><code>discard</code></li>
<li><code>topcat</code></li>
<li><code>samp</code></li>
<li><code>tosql</code></li>
<li><code>gui</code></li>
</ul>
Use the <code>help=omode</code> flag
or see <a href="outModes.html">Section 6.4</a> for more information.
</p>
<p>[Default: <code>out</code>]
</p>
</dd>
<dt><strong><code>out = <out-table></code> <em>(<a href="http://andromeda.star.bris.ac.uk/starjavadocs/uk/ac/starlink/ttools/TableConsumer.html">TableConsumer</a>)</em></strong></dt>
<dd>The location of the output table. This is usually a filename
to write to.
If it is equal to the special value "-" (the default)
the output table will be written to standard output.
<p>This parameter must only be given if
<code>omode</code>
has its default value of "<code>out</code>".
</p>
<p>[Default: <code>-</code>]
</p>
</dd>
</dl>
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