I am trying to run a macro that has several arguments from a terminal through a script. The point of it all is that I want to run the macro for several input files which are in different directories while passing the values or some components of the macro arguments via the shell script arguments. Please see the detailed script below.
#!/bin/bash
# Function to check if input is a valid integer
is_number() {
re='^[0-9]+$'
if ! [[ $1 =~ $re ]] ; then
echo "Error: Not a number" >&2; return 1
else
return 0
fi
}
# Prompt user for input range and other parameters
echo "Please enter the required parameters for the macro execution."
# Get range from the user
read -p "Enter start 'day': " start_range
read -p "Enter end 'day': " end_range
# Validate range input
if ! is_number "$start_range" || ! is_number "$end_range" ; then
echo "Invalid input. Please enter numeric values."
exit 1
fi
# Get version of S1_ROFsByday
read -p "Enter the version of S1_ROFsByday list files: " s1_version
# Get the other parameters
read -p "Enter the number of events to be analysed (nEvents): " nEvents
read -p "Enter the tree name (treeName): " treeName
read -p "Enter the primary vertex code (PV): " PVID
read -p "Enter the event selection code (ES): " ESID
# Loop over the range
for i in $(seq $start_range $end_range); do
# Construct the input and output file names
input_file="/analysis/LambdaRecon_git_repos/dstlistFiles/dataDSTs/feb22_gen02/S1_ROFsByday_lists_${s1_version}/S1_0${I}_ROFs.list"
output_filePath="/LambdaRecon_git_repos/Data_gen02DST_outs/stagelevel_analysis/stage2/dEdx1_PV${PVID}_ES${ESID}"
output_file="S2_CutSel_S10${s1_version}_PV_${PVID}_ES_${ESID}_0${I}_out"
output_file_param="${output_filePath}/${output_file}.root"
# Construct the macro command
macro_command="S2_LL_CutBased.C+\(\"${input_file}\", \"${output_file_param}\", ${nEvents}, \"${treeName}\", ${PVID}, ${ESID}\)"
echo $PWD
echo ${macro_command}
echo "root -l -q ${macro_command} 2> \"${output_filePath}/${output_file}.strace\""
# Run the macro with ROOT and redirect stack trace
# root -l -q '${macro_command}' 2> \"${output_filePath}/${output_file}.strace\"
root -l -q ${macro_command}
done
Essentially, I want to run the analysis macro over data from several days so I pass start_range = 34 and end_range = 42 which will analyse all the data (i.e. root files) in the folders for these specific days.
But the root does not execute the root -l -q ${macro_command} and throws an error. I believe, this is likely due to a problem with how the string for the root command is being constructed in the script.
If you have any suggestions or corrections will be deeply appreciated. This is kind of an urgent issue to be fixed.
Or if you have an entirely different idea to execute the program, that will also help.
Warning in <TApplication::GetOptions>: macro 'S2_LL_CutBased.C not found
Warning in <TApplication::GetOptions>: macro "analysis/LambdaRecon_git_repos/Data_gen02DST_outs/stagelevel_analysis/stage2/dEdx1_PV5_ES2/S2_CutSel_S103_PV_5_ES_2_042_out.root", not found
Warning in <TApplication::GetOptions>: macro "t_cands", not found
Warning in <TApplication::GetOptions>: macro 5, not found
Warning in <TApplication::GetOptions>: macro 2)' not found
Unfortunately. the macro is too long with few thousand lines. It runs without any error when I execute root -l -q 'S2_LL_CutBased.C+(arg1, arg2, arg3, arg4, arg5)' individually with specific variables.
Because anything goes after root are considered arguments of the command, you should put you ${macro_command} in quotes (to make it a single argument). By doing this, you can remove the escape for the parentheses
you can try:
