Category
Generic
Usage
hgTrackDb [options] org database trackDb trackDb.sql hgRoot
Manual
This tool is part of UCSC Genome Browser's utilities.
Options:
org - a directory name with a hierarchy of trackDb.ra files to examine
- in the case of a single directory with a single trackDb.ra file use .
database - name of database to create the trackDb table in
trackDb - name of table to create, usually trackDb, or trackDb_${USER}
trackDb.sql - SQL definition of the table to create, typically from
- the source tree file: src/hg/lib/trackDb.sql
- the table name in the CREATE statement is replaced by the
- table name specified on this command line.
hgRoot - a directory name to prepend to org to locate the hierarchy:
hgRoot/trackDb.ra - top level trackDb.ra file processed first
hgRoot/org/trackDb.ra - second level file processed second
hgRoot/org/database/trackDb.ra - third level file processed last
- for no directory hierarchy use .
-strict - only include tables that exist (and complain about missing html files).
-raName=trackDb.ra - Specify a file name to use other than trackDb.ra
for the ra files.
-release=alpha|beta|public - Include trackDb entries with this release tag only.
-settings - for trackDb scanning, output table name, type line,
- and settings hash to stderr while loading everything.
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