PTREPACK(1)
NAME
ptrepack - Copy any PyTables Leaf, Group or complete subtree into
another file.
SYNOPSIS
ptrepack -h -v -o -R start,stop,step --non-recursive --dest-title=title
--dont-copyuser-attrs --overwrite-nodes --complevel=(0-9) --complib=lib
--shuffle=(0|1) --fletcher32=(0|1) --keep-source-filters --upgrade-fla-
vors --dont-regenerate-old-indexes sourcefile:sourcegroup dest-
file:destgroup
DESCRIPTION
Copy any Leaf, Group or complete subtree from a PyTables file into
another file.
OPTIONS
A summary of options is included below.
-h Prints a help text.
-v Show more information.
-o Overwite destination file.
- -R RANGE
- Select a RANGE of rows in the form start,stop,step during the copy of all the leaves.
- --non-recursive
- Do not do a recursive copy. Default is to do it.
- --dest-title=title
- Title for the new file (if not specified, the source is copied).
- --dont-copy-userattrs
- Do not copy the user attrs (default is to do it).
- --overwrite-nodes
- Overwrite destination nodes if they exist. Default is not to overwrite them.
- --complevel=(0-9)
- Set a compression level (0 for no compression, which is the default).
- --complib=lib
- Set the compression library to be used during the copy. lib can be set to "zlib", "lzo", "ucl" or "bzip2". Defaults to "zlib".
- --shuffle=(0|1)
- Activate or not the shuffling filter (default is active if complevel>0).
- --fletcher32=(0|1)
- Whether to activate or not the fletcher32 filter (not active by default).
- --keep-source-filters
- Use the original filters in source files. The default is not doing that if any of --complevel, --complib, --shuffle or --fletcher32 option is specified.
- --upgrade-flavors
- When repacking PyTables 1.x files, the flavor of leaves will be unset. With this, such a leaves will be serialized as objects with the internal flavor ("numpy" for 2.x series).
- --dont-regenerate-old-indexes
- Disable regenerating old indexes. The default is to regenerate old indexes as they are found.
SEE ALSO
ptdump(1).
These utilities are documented fully by PyTables user's manual.
AUTHOR
- This manual page was written by Francesc Altet <faltet@carabos.com>.