The runstudy utility

You can launch an analysis from the command line using the runstudy utility, which is installed with the software.

You can use the runstudy utility to launch an analysis on either a PC or a Linux machine. When running on a Linux machine, make sure you have added appropriate environment variables to your shell.

Note: For full details of the command-line arguments accepted by the runstudy command, type
runstudy
without any arguments at the command prompt.
Alternatively, include the argument
-help

This table lists the arguments that can be used with the runstudy utility:

Argument Description
study_name The study file name
-project project_file Type your project file in place of project_file to specify that the study name specified should be looked up in the specified project file.
-help to print this help message.
-temp temp_dir

Type your temp directory in place of temp_dir to specify the temp area to be used

[Linux default: /tmp/<random_folder>]

temp_dir must have at least permissions

of dr-xr-xr-x (0555) and also write permission

for the user executing runstudy.

[Windows default:

<Product_User_Home>\runsdyTmp_<xxxxx>]

-keeptmp to specify that any temporary files created should be retained.
-units system Type one of (SI, METRIC, ENGLISH) in place of system, to use that unit system in the output.
-dry-run to print the commands that would be executed, without actually running them.