Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

cavget and cavput are useful tools (especially for well formatted PV names) which are available in the SDDSEpicsToolKit available here:

http://www.aps.anl.gov/Accelerator_Systems_Division/Accelerator_Operations_Physics/oagSoftware.shtml

Here are the help lines ...

nda@gaeaimac 1> cavget
cavget [-list=<string>[=<value>][,<string>[=<value>]...]]
[-range=begin=<integer>,end=<integer>[,format=<string>][,interval=<integer>]]
[-floatformat=<printfString>]
{ [-delimiter=<string>] [-labeled] [-noQuotes] [-embrace=start=<string>,end=<string>]
    | [-cavputForm]  }
[-statistics=number=<value>,pause=<value>[,format=[tagvalue][pretty][SDDS,file=<filename]]]
[-pendIoTime=<seconds>] [-repeat=number=<integer>,pause=<seconds>[,average[,sigma]]]
[-numerical] [-errorValue=<string>] [-excludeErrors]
[-despike[[neighbors=<integer>][,passes=<integer>][,averageOf=<integer>][,threshold=<value>]]
[-printErrors]

-list        specifies PV name string components
-range       specifies range of integers and format string
-floatFormat specifies printf-style format string for printing
             single- and double-precision values.  %g is the default.
-delimiter   specifies string to print between values.  The
             default is a newline.
-labeled     specifies that the PV name be echoed with the value.
             A space separates the name and value.
-noQuotes    Don't put quotes around string values that contain whitespace
             or are blank.
-embrace     Specifies putting braces around tag-value pairs.
             Typically used only with -label.
-cavputForm  Specifies printout output in a format that can be given directly to
             cavput for restoration of readback values.
-pendIoTime  specifies maximum time to wait for connections and
             return values.  Default is 1.0s
-dryRun      specifies showing PV names and values but
             not sending to IOCs.
-errorValue  specifies a string to emit when there is a timeout or other
             error for a PV.  The default is ?.
-excludeErrors
             specifies that when there is a timeout or other error for a PV,
             there should be no output for that PV.
-numerical   return a numerical value rather than a string for enumerated
             types.
-repeat      specifies repeated readings of the PVs at a specified time
             interval.  If the average qualifier is given, then numerical
             readbacks are averaged; for nonnumerical outputs, the last value
             is given.
-statistics  specifies statistical calculations of the PVs with reading times of
             giving number at a specified time interval.
             if format=tagvalue is given, the output format would be
             "mean <value> median <value> sigma <value> ...."
             if format=pretty, the statistical values are printed in columns format.
             if format=SDDS,file=<filename> is given, the results will be written
             to file.
-despike     despike must come along with repeat or statistics option which supplies
             the number of readings. Despike specifies despiking of the number of
             reading values given by repeat or statistics under the assumption
             that consecutive readings are nearest neighbors. While,
             <neighbors> is the number of neighbors for checking
             despiking; <averageOf> is the number of consecutive readings around
             the despiking for averaging and the averaged value (excluding the despike)
             is going to replace this despiking data; <passes> is the number of times for
             processing despiking; <threshold> is the despiking threshold, if the threshold
             is zero or if the sum of absolute delta from the left most neighbor to
             current reading is greater than <threshold>*<neighbors>, this reading value
             is  going to be replace by the averaged value of <averageOf> consecutive
             readings around this reading and excluding this reading, i.e., if threshold
             is zero, despiking works similar to averaging. The value of <neighbors> and
             <averageOf> must be smaller than the number of readings.
printErrors  print error message to standard error if channel not found.

Program by Michael Borland, ANL/APS (EPICS 3.14.11, May 12 2012)

nda@gaeaimac 2> cavput
usage: cavput [-list=<string>[=<value>][,<string>[=<value>]...]]
[-range=begin=<integer>,end=<integer>[,format=<string>][,interval=<integer>]]
[-pendIoTime=<seconds>] [-deltaMode[=factor=<value>]] [-ramp=step=<n>,pause=<sec>]
[-numerical] [-blunderAhead[=silently]]

-list           specifies PV name string components
-range          specifies range of integers and format string
-pendIoTime     specifies maximum time to wait for connections and
                return values.  Default is 1.0s
-dryRun         specifies showing PV names and values but
                not sending to IOCs.
-deltaMode      specifies that values are deltas from present values in
                PVs.
-numerical      forces conversion of the value to a number and sending as
                a number.  Default for -deltaMode.
-ramp           ramp to the value by given steps (default is 1) with given pause
        (default is 0.1 seconds) between steps.
-blunderAhead   specifies that the program should blunder ahead with all the
                puts it can do, even if some PVs don't connect.

Program by Michael Borland, ANL/APS (EPICS 3.14.11, May 12 2012)

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From: "Gerrit Kühn" <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Tuesday, July 3, 2012 8:13:50 AM
Subject: multi caput/get

Hi all,

I could use some program to get and set multiple PVs from the commandline.
I found several references on the web to tools called caput1, caget1 and
similar, that should do exactly what I need. However, they appear not to
be included with my epics distribution (anymore?). Where can I get them,
or is there a recommended alternative?


cu
  Gerrit