UFO-LAUNCH(1)

👑 ufo-launch — the manual page, but make it a group chat 💅

okay bestie, welcome to ufo-launch(1), the one and only way to Run UFO workflows ✨ she's giving "one command, whole pipeline" and honestly? iconic.

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🌸 NAME 🌸

ufo-launch — Run UFO workflows

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

ufo-launch [-t] [-a] [-d] [-q | --quieter] [--version]
           <task1> [KEY=VALUE] ! <task2> ! ...

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

So basically: she runs the workflow exactly as you specify it on the command line. 💖

Plugins get listed one by one, and you separate them with exclamation marks — the ! is the whole vibe, it's the group-chat "and then…" between tasks. 🎀

Want to parameterize stuff? Just drop KEY=VALUE assignments in there before you finish off with an exclamation mark. Easy.

And listen — if you want to push data from multiple streams, you gotta enclose those input streams in brackets. no cap. 👑

💅 OPTIONS 💅

• --trace, -t — outputs execution profiles that you can then analyse with ufo-prof. it's giving receipts for your pipeline 🔥
• --address, -a — host address of one or more ufod instances. plural. she's social like that 🫶
• -q — disables the output of "[n] items processed ...". so you stop getting the lil progress spam 😌
• --quieter — disables all output. total silence. main character, no commentary 💀
• --version — outputs the version number. identity check, slay ✨

🌈 EXAMPLES 🌈

• Convert TIFF to HDF5 — the classic glow-up:

$ ufo-launch read path=input*.tif ! write filename=output.h5:/foo

• Do flat-field-correction — the "fix the lighting bestie" moment:

$ ufo-launch [read path=radios, read path=darks, read path=flats] ! \
             flat-field-correct ! null

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and that's the whole page, fr fr 💖 this one's from UFO-LAUNCH(1), dated 05/10/2025 — same name top and bottom, she's consistent, she's a queen 👑🦋