CLP(1)

💖 CLP(1) — the linear program solver page, bestie edition 💖

okay so this is clp, straight out of the General Commands Manual, and I'm gonna walk you through it like we're texting at 2am. stay with me, it's actually so good.

✨ NAME ✨

clp — linear program solver. that's it, that's the whole vibe. a solver. for linear programs. iconic behavior honestly.

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

clp filename [ options ] solutionfile

so you hand it a filename, you can sprinkle some options in there if you want, and then a solutionfile where the answer goes. slay.

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

this manual page documents briefly the clp command — so like, the tl;dr version, not the whole saga.

clp is your interface to the coin linear programming solver. and what does it actually solve? bestie, it solves this exact linear optimization program:

minimize      c^t x
such that:    row_lb <= Ax <= row_ub
              column_lb <= x <= column_ub

no cap, that's the whole thing. minimize c^t x, keep your rows trapped between row_lb and row_ub, keep your columns trapped between column_lb and column_ub. main character math energy. 🔥

💅 OPTIONS 💅

so here's the thing — when you give it no options at all, clp drops you into interactive command line mode. you and clp, just vibing, chatting, one command at a time. 🫶

but the moment you pass options? it switches into batch mode instead. and for batch mode, here's a lil summary of what you can do. for the complete description (the director's cut, the extended edition), go look at /usr/share/doc/coinor-libclp-doc. iykyk.

• -help — shows you a summary of the options. the "help me help you" flag. 💖
• -primalsimplex — solves the problem using the primal simplex method.
• -dualsimplex — solves the problem using the dual simplex method. yes, it's the other one. both are valid. choose your fighter. ⚔️
• -maximize — maximizes the problem. the plot twist option. 📈

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• glpsol(1)
• dsdp5(1)

also!! this program is fully documented in the accompanying html documentation, which lives at /usr/share/doc/coinor-libclp-doc — but only if the coinor-libclp-doc package is installed. so if that folder's giving empty, that's why, bestie. 🙈

👑 AUTHOR 👑

clp was written by John J. Forrest <jjforre@us.ibm.com> et.al. — shoutout to the et.al., they're the unsung heroes fr fr.

this manual page was written by Soeren Sonnenburg <sonne@debian.org>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others — generous queen behavior, we love to see it 💜).

and that's the whole page!! it was last touched on May 7, 2008, it's page CLP(1) from the General Commands Manual, and yes we're still obsessed with it in this house. go solve something linear, bestie. periodt. ✨🎀🦋