Invoking Nalu - Command-line options¶
Nalu’s runtime behavior can be controlled by using several command line input
options during invocation. Users can invoke -h
to determine the
various options available.
-
-h
,
--help
¶
Print the help message describing all Nalu options and exit
-
-i
,
--input-deck
¶
Use the filename provided as the input file. If this option is not provided, naluX will attempt to load a file called
nalu.i
in the current working directory as the input file.
-
-o
,
--log-file
¶
The log file where the output generated by Nalu is directed to. If no file is provided, then naluX will use the base name of the Nalu input file with the extension
.log
as the output file. For example, if naluX was invoked asnaluX -i ABL.neutral.i
then the output will be redirected to a file namedABL.neutral.log
. Note that the file is overwritten if it already exists.
-
-v
,
--version
¶
Print the Nalu version string.
-
-p
,
--pprint
¶
Enable parallel printing from all MPI ranks.
-
-D
,
--debug
¶
Enable verbose debug printing to log file.