ASE(1)

💖 ASE(1) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to ase — the ASE command line tool ✨ (that's the ASE manual page, page one, user commands section, if you were wondering where you wandered into 🫶)

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🌸 NAME 🌸

ase — the ASE command line tool, no cap 💅

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so basically the vibe is:

usage: ase [-h] [--version] [-T]

       {help, info, test, gui, db, run, band-structure, build,
       dimensionality, eos, ulm, find, nebplot, convert, reciprocal,
       completion, diff, exec} ...

Translation? It's the ASE command line tool. That's it, that's the whole thing, periodt 👑

🎀 options:

• -h, --help — shows this help message and then dips. classic. ✨
• --version — shows the program's version number and peaces out 🦋
• -T, --traceback — (yes bestie, that's the whole description, it's giving mysterious main character energy 🙈)

👑 Sub-commands:

pick your fighter:

{help, info, test, gui, db, run, band-structure, build,
dimensionality, eos, ulm, find, nebplot, convert, reciprocal,
completion, diff, exec}

• help — help for a sub-command. help-ception, iconic 💖
• info — print information about files or system. reciepts, basically 🧚
• test — run ASE's test-suite. let's make sure everything still slays ✅
• gui — ASE's graphical user interface. visuals, we love ✨
• db — manipulate and query the ASE database. talk to the data bestie 💅
• run — run a calculation with one of ASE's calculators. go go go 🔥
• band-structure — plot band-structure. pretty plots, no notes 📈
• build — build an atom, molecule or bulk structure. arts and crafts hour 🎀
• dimensionality — analyze the dimensionality of the bonded clusters in a structure, using 🌈 (and yes, the sentence literally just ends at "using" — I'm not hiding anything from you, that's fr fr what it says, king behaviour honestly 💀)

not me side-eyeing that trailing "using" — the manpage said what it said and I am but a humble messenger 🫶

• eos — calculate EOS from one or more trajectory files. 🍓
• ulm — manipulate/show content of ulm-file. 💜
• find — find files with atoms in them. scavenger hunt bestie 🔍
• nebplot — analyze NEB trajectories by making band plots. 📊
• convert — convert between file formats. glow-up but for file types 💫
• reciprocal — show the reciprocal space. it's giving duality ✨
• completion — add tab-completion for Bash. your fingers will thank you, lowkey life-changing ⌨️
• diff — print differences between atoms/calculations. the comparison content we deserve 👀
• exec — execute code on files. chaos, but make it useful 😭

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okay that's the whole page, you read it, you understood it, you're basically a Unix girlie now 💅🌸

this masterpiece was brought to you by ase 3.28.0, dated July 2026, and it lives in ASE(1) — love that for it, mwah 😘💖