CCLIB-GET(1)

🎀 CCLIB-GET — the cclib manual, but make it a group chat 🎀

okay bestie, so this is the cclib-get page from section 1 of the User commands manual, and honestly? it's giving "tiny tool, huge slay". it's a command-line interface to cclib, and it's here to hand you your chemistry data all nice and pretty. let's get into it 💅

✨ NAME ✨

cclib-get — a command-line interface to cclib. that's it, that's the whole name. short, sweet, iconic. 👑

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

the three ways to summon it, literally copy-paste these:

cclib-get --help

cclib-get --list [file]

cclib-get [option] [attribute(s)] [file(s)]

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so like, cclib-get is a simple command-line interface to cclib — lowercase simple, lowercase command-line, that's just the vibe. what does it actually do tho? it lets you quickly display the information extracted by cclib from a particular log file or log files. singular file, plural files, we don't discriminate 🫶. you point it at your log, it shows you the goods. no cap.

✨ OPTIONS ✨

these options are currently supported, and we're listing every single one because we're not gatekeeping:

• -f, --future — use experimental features. right now that means exactly one thing: optdone_as_list. it's called "future" for a reason bestie, this is the beta energy 🧚
• -h, --help — prints some usage information. and the important part: when you use this, no other options or arguments are parsed. it's a one-and-done diva, it does not multitask 💅
• -j, --json — extracts attributes available in a CJSON file. json girlies rise 🌈
• -l, --list — lists attributes that are present in a file, without actually extracting them. window shopping only, no committing 🙈
• -m, --multi — parses multiple files as one input stream. they're a package deal now, we don't separate them 🎀
• -v, --verbose — more verbose parsing output. heads up: by default it's only errors. so if you're nosy (affectionate), this is your flag ⭐

lowkey important: --help literally stops everything else from being parsed. no other options, no arguments. periodt.

👑 AUTHOR 👑

this manpage was written by Karol M. Langner <karol.langner@gmail.com> and Daniel Leidert <dleidert@debian.org> for the Debian distribution — but it may be used by others. so like, it's Debian's baby but it's happy to be adopted by literally anyone. sharing is caring fr fr 💜

and that's the whole page bestie, we ate and left no crumbs 🍓. this was CCLIB-GET(1) from 2016-10-05 — yeah, the date said 2016, it's vintage, it's retro, it's timeless ✨. mwah 💋