We can leave it as is…I just wanted to verify that this is the intended behavior. On Dec 2, 2014, at 4:07 PM, Sho Uemura <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Personally, I don't care. Do you think that's better? > > People who run over multiple files usually (so far, as far as I've heard) are doing it either because they want to run through a lot of data at once, or because they want to look at a few events from each file. The latter is what -n supports. > > If you want another flag that does what you want, add it. > > On Tue, 2 Dec 2014, McCormick, Jeremy I. wrote: > >> Hi, Sho. >> >> I noticed that the EVIO to LCIO converter command line tool is written such that when giving a number of events to run using the -n argument, it actually runs that many events from each input EVIO file. (So if you specify 500 events and 5 files, it actually runs a total of 2500 events, etc.) >> >> Is this the intended behavior? I would have thought it more logical that -n establishes an absolute limit on the number of events to process in the entire job, but perhaps it was never intended to be used that way. >> >> Thanks. >> >> ?Jeremy >> ######################################################################## >> Use REPLY-ALL to reply to list >> >> To unsubscribe from the HPS-SOFTWARE list, click the following link: >> https://listserv.slac.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=HPS-SOFTWARE&A=1 >> > > ######################################################################## > Use REPLY-ALL to reply to list > > To unsubscribe from the HPS-SOFTWARE list, click the following link: > https://listserv.slac.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=HPS-SOFTWARE&A=1 ######################################################################## Use REPLY-ALL to reply to list To unsubscribe from the HPS-SOFTWARE list, click the following link: https://listserv.slac.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=HPS-SOFTWARE&A=1