Command line options

Some options in gstat can be specified on the command line. Command line options appear between the gstat command and the command file name, options start with a -, and option arguments follow the option letter, possible separated by white space, e.g. the command line

gstat -l gstat.log -d 2 zinc.gst

has two options, ` l' having argument gstat.log and ` d' having argument 2. The final argument, zinc.gst is not part of an option, it is the main argument (the command file). A short list of command line options is obtained by typing

gstat -h

Special file names (pipes, append files) are explained in section 5.4. The list of options is given in table 5.1.

Table 5.1: command line options

option	meaning	keyword
-C	print copyright notice
-W	print no-warranty notice
-v	print long version information
-i	enter the interactive variogram modeling user interface (only available when method was not set previously)
-d n	invoke debug level n, see table C.4	debug
-s	silent mode: print only warnings and errors	debug
-o file	specify (ascii) output file	output
-p file	specify gnuplot plot file	plotfile
-l file	specify (ascii) log file for debug information (default to screen)	logfile
-r n	use random number generator n (try $-1$; see section 5.3)
-S	secure mode	secure
-e action	execute action action (see section 5.5)