shmesa

[earlbellinger]

Command line utilities for MESA. See the README for usage.

As per the suggestion in the Discussion, it is now to be run as a standalone program rather than to be sourced. Therefore, recommended usage will be to add PATH=$PATH:$MESA_DIR/scripts/shmesa to your ~/.bashrc, and then you can call shmesa from anywhere.

[evbauer]

Should we add the suggestion of editing PATH to the MESA installation documentation here?

[evbauer]

I think we want an export here to get the path update into the user's environment.

[earlbellinger]

I thought $PATH is exported by default (so doesn't need to be re-exported). Nevertheless I've added it as there's no harm.

[evbauer]

Can we include src/ directories here too so that run_star_extras get bundled up too? And maybe some other files like *.list and *.net would be helpful as well?

In playing with this just now, I also noticed that make/run_star.mod and make/run_star_extras.mod got picked up by this, but the mod files are fortran objects that we don't want to share. Is there an easy way to exclude those?

[earlbellinger]

some extra planned features, including some suggestions from the summer school participants:

• max/min/first/last: point at history.data or a profile file, supply a column name and get the relevant output (e.g., shmesa max LOGS/history.data star_age)
• closest: point at history.data or a profile file and supply a column and a value as well as additional column names. closest will find the row whose value is closest to the supplied one and print the values of the other columns belonging to that row (e.g., shmesa closest center_h1 0.1 model_number star_age)
• extras: replace the standard run_star_extras.f90 file with the full template
• add: the shmesa change functionality only changes existing inlist parameter names; add could insert names into the inlist (e.g., shmesa add inlist_project controls do_element_diffusion .true.)

additional todo:

• hook into the github continuous integration testing
• -i/--interactive option, to prompt the user on each file they want to include
• --dry-run to show which files would be nominally included

[evbauer]

I love the extras idea!