Overview

This package provides ROOT utilities in a C++ library (libROOTutils.so) and as command line programs.

CLI specification

1. rootls: ls for ROOT files.
   • Allow loading custom libraries for custom classes (also useful for the other utilities).
   • List sub-directories, (optionally recursive).
   • Filter by class name.
   • Support globbing/regex matching of object names.
   • Long listing: name, title, size, class, modification time, saved versions (cycles in ROOT jargon).
   • Verbose mode: also print individual objects.
2. roottree: Inspect a ROOT tree. Subcommands:
   • print: print the tree.
   • view: start the tree viewer.
   • scan: scan first few selections (optional flag).
   • draw: draw selection from the tree.
     • Dump eventlists/entrylists to ROOT files.
     • Print plots.
   • copy: copy specified branches to a new tree (allow selection).
3. rootws: Inspect a RooFit workspace.
   • print:
   • draw:

Library features

1. Parsers
2. Style utilities
3. I/O utilities
4. Plotting utilities

Status [1/19]

rootls [1/7]

Custom library loader

List sub-directory

Class filter

Globbing

Regex matching

Long listing

Verbose print

roottree [0/7]

Print

View

Scan

Draw [0/2]

Eventlist/entrylist

Plots

Copy/prune/trim

rootws [0/2]

Print

Draw