To Do:
- get slides and handouts from XSEDE demo
- go to Bitbucket and get the -h output for all the flags
- Sandeep's Big Data flag will be the only thing missing
The Brown Dog Command Line Interface (BD-CLI) provides users with an easy to use interface to Brown Dog services. It talks to various components of Brown Dog through its API. It can be used to do operations like file conversions and extractions. Please see the README for current instructions.
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- Create a Python virtual environment in your computer using virtualenv, virtualenvwrapper or any other tool.
- Activate the created Python virtual environment
- Run the following command:
pip install bdcli This will install bdcli and all the dependent packages and you should see a new application bd from your terminal.
Working with
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Terminal
This section is intended only to those users who are working in a terminal for the very first time or are not very experienced using it. Others, please free to skip this section.
Example Transformations
Extraction
In the context of Brown Dog, extraction refers to the process of extracting relevant information from one or more data files. For example, finding out the location of people's faces in an image. You can use BD-CLI to perform an extraction operation by running the following command:
bd <input_file.ext>
Optionally you can use the ```-v``` flag
Conversion
Chaining Transformations
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