[GRASS-user] Announcing new command line interface of `grass` program in trunk

[Thomas Adams]

Vaclav,

That's very cool -- nice way of doing this!

Best,
Tom

On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 8:44 PM, Vaclav Petras <wenzeslaus at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm happy to announce new command line interface of the `grass` program
> [1, 2] available in trunk.
>
> Certainly you already know that you can start GRASS GIS session in the
> specified Location and Mapset in the following way:
>
> grass71 .../grassdata/location/mapset/
>
> The new interface adds `--exec` flag for specifying a command which will
> be executed inside that GRASS session:
>
> grass71 .../grassdata/location/mapset/ --exec r.univar map=elevation
>
> This starts GRASS session, executes whatever command is specified after
> `--exec` flag and then ends showing the (text) output of the module as if
> the module would be executed manually in the GRASS session. And example
> showing this in combination with r.external to get the data into the Mapset
> is in the documentation [3].
>
> This interface is meant to remove the need for lengthy manual setup of
> environmental variables followed by execution of GRASS modules in the
> mock-up GRASS session [4]. The idea is to use correct GRASS session
> maintained by `grass` program which means that any GRASS-related code must
> be passed to the `grass` program as opposed to direct execution in the
> former case.
>
> The interface can run any module or custom script with or without
> parameters. GUI tools including g.gui [5] can be called as well which opens
> new possibilities for application developers.
>
> The interface is the first implementation and currently is fully
> operational only on Linux and similar systems but it benefits from a lot of
> stable code which was already in place. Try it out and feel free to comment
> here, on grass-dev or in the related ticket [6]. There is definitively many
> potential improvements and it would be great to know what the community
> demands.
>
> Vaclav
>
> [1] https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/changeset/65252
> [2] https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/changeset/65294
> [3]
> http://grass.osgeo.org/grass71/manuals/grass7.html#exec-interface-example
> [4]
> http://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Working_with_GRASS_without_starting_it_explicitly
> [5] https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/changeset/65306
> [6] https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/ticket/2579
>
>
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