Commandline tools for ROOT files inspection and automated plotting

These are several ROOT commandline tools which have the goal to inspect and to act on root file contents directly from a unix terminal.

Short description

o rools:      Print the content of a root file or subdirectory (like ls)
              -l option exists (like with ls) and give access to class,
              datime, name and title of an object

o roocp:      Copy objects from ROOT files into an other

o roorm:      Remove objects from ROOT files
              -f option exists to force the removing

o roomv:      Move objects from ROOT files to an other

o roomkdir:   Add directories in a ROOT files

o rooprint:   Print ROOT files contents on ps,pdf or png,gif.. files

o rooeventselector : Copy subsets of trees from source ROOT files
                     to new trees on a destination ROOT file

o roobrowse : Open a ROOT file on a TBrowser

Some examples

rools

rools file.root

dir1 dir2 hist1 hist2

rools file.root -l

TDirectoryFile Jun 26 11:23 dir1 "a directory"
TDirectoryFile Jun 26 11:23 dir2 "another directory"
TH1F Jun 26 11:23 hist1 "This is the px distribution"
TH2F Jun 26 11:23 hist2 "py vs px"

rools -h

usage: rools [-h] [-l] pattern_list [pattern_list ...]

list ROOT file contents

positional arguments:
pattern_list file path and object path in the ROOT file with the syntax :
[file_path/]file.root:[object_path/]object

optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-l use a long listing format

rools file.root:hist1

hist1

rools file.root:dir1

hist3 hist4

Which is really usefull with these commandlines is that they accept regular expressions.

rools file.root:hist*

hist1 hist2

rools file.root:dir*

dir1 :
hist3 hist4

dir2 :
hist5 hist6

rools *.root

/dir/dir/dir/file.root :
dir1 dir2 hist1 hist2

/dir/dir/dir/file2.root :
graph1 graph2

rools *.root:*

/dir/dir/dir/file.root :
hist1 hist2

dir1 :
hist3 hist4

dir2 :
hist5 hist6

/dir/dir/dir/file2.root :
graph1 graph2

roocp

roocp file2.root:graph1 file.root
rools *.root

/dir/dir/dir/file.root :
dir1 dir2 graph1 hist1 hist2

/dir/dir/dir/file2.root :
graph1 graph2

roorm

roorm file.root:hist1

Are you sure to remove 'hist1' from '/dir/dir/dir/file.root' ? (y/n) : y

rools file.root

dir1 dir2 hist2

or:

roorm -f file.root:graph1
rools file.root

dir1 dir2 hist2

roomv

roomv file2.root:graph1 file.root
rools *.root

/dir/dir/dir/file.root :
dir1 dir2 graph1 hist1 hist2

/dir/dir/dir/file2.root :
graph2

roomkdir

roomkdir file.root:new_dir
rools file.root

dir1 dir2 hist1 hist2 new_dir