Hi Rob, As far as I am aware there is currently no way to specify that on the command line - the phil file is the only way to do this. It would be good if someone was to extend the PHIL command line parsing to enable such functionality :) Cheers, Richard Dr Richard Gildea Data Analysis Scientist Tel: +441235 77 8078 Diamond Light Source Ltd. Diamond House Harwell Science & Innovation Campus Didcot Oxfordshire OX11 0DE ________________________________________ From: [email protected] [[email protected]] on behalf of R.D. Oeffner [[email protected]] Sent: 09 November 2016 14:46 To: [email protected] Subject: [cctbxbb] command line syntax for multiple scope PHIL Say a program, myprog, has a master PHIL definition like: minimization.input .multiple = True { file_name = None .type = str nval = None .type = int } and a PHIL input file like: minimization.input { file_name = experiment1.dat nval = 42 } minimization.input { file_name = experiment2.dat nval = 13 } so that the user on the command line can type "myprog phil_input.txt" What would be the equivalent command line syntax of the PHIL input above? Rob -- Robert Oeffner, Ph.D. Research Associate, The Read Group Department of Haematology, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research University of Cambridge Cambridge Biomedical Campus Wellcome Trust/MRC Building Hills Road Cambridge CB2 0XY www.cimr.cam.ac.uk/investigators/read/index.html tel: +44(0)1223 763234 mobile: +44(0)7712 887162 _______________________________________________ cctbxbb mailing list [email protected] http://phenix-online.org/mailman/listinfo/cctbxbb -- This e-mail and any attachments may contain confidential, copyright and or privileged material, and are for the use of the intended addressee only. If you are not the intended addressee or an authorised recipient of the addressee please notify us of receipt by returning the e-mail and do not use, copy, retain, distribute or disclose the information in or attached to the e-mail. Any opinions expressed within this e-mail are those of the individual and not necessarily of Diamond Light Source Ltd. Diamond Light Source Ltd. cannot guarantee that this e-mail or any attachments are free from viruses and we cannot accept liability for any damage which you may sustain as a result of software viruses which may be transmitted in or with the message. Diamond Light Source Limited (company no. 4375679). Registered in England and Wales with its registered office at Diamond House, Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OX11 0DE, United Kingdom