yt(1) command-line tool allowing to access some of yt's basic functionality without opening a python interpreter.

DESCRIPTION

The tools is a collection of subcommands. These can quickly making plots of slices and projections through a dataset, updating yt's codebase, print basic statistics about a dataset, launch an IPython notebook session, and more.
usage: yt [-h] [--config CONFIG] [--paste] [--paste-detailed] [--detailed] [--rpdb] [--parallel] [--version] subcommand

yt command line arguments

optional arguments:

-h, --help
show this help message and exit
--config CONFIG
Set configuration option, in the form param=value
--paste
Paste traceback to paste.yt-project.org
--paste-detailed
Paste a detailed traceback with local variables to paste.yt-project.org
--detailed
Display detailed traceback.
--rpdb
Enable remote pdb interaction (for parallel debugging).
--parallel
Run in MPI-parallel mode (must be launched as an MPI task)
--version
show program's version number and exit

subcommands:

help
Print help message
bugreport
Report a bug in yt
hub_register
Register a user on the Hub: http://hub.yt-project.org/
instinfo
Get some information about the yt installation
version
Get some information about the yt installation
load
Load a single dataset into an IPython instance
mapserver
Serve a plot in a GMaps-style interface
pastebin
Post a script to an anonymous pastebin
pastebin_grab
Print an online pastebin to STDOUT for local use.
upload_notebook
Upload an IPython notebook to hub.yt-project.org.
plot
Create a set of images
rpdb
Connect to a currently running (on localhost) rpd session. Commands run with --rpdb will trigger an rpdb session with any uncaught exceptions.
notebook
Run the IPython Notebook
stats
Print stats and max/min value of a given field (if requested), for one or more datasets (default field is density)
update
Update the yt installation to the most recent version
upload_image
Upload an image to imgur.com. Must be PNG.

AUTHORS

yt was primarily written by yt Development Team.