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PetscFileRetrieve

Obtains a file from a URL or compressed and copies into local disk space as uncompressed.

Synopsis

PetscErrorCode  PetscFileRetrieve(MPI_Comm comm,const char url[],char localname[],size_t llen,PetscBool  *found)
Collective

Input Parameter

comm - processors accessing the file
url - name of file, including entire URL (with or without .gz)
llen - length of localname

Output Parameter

localname - name of local copy of file - valid on only process zero
found - if found or retrieved the file - valid on all processes

Notes

if the file already exists local this function just returns without downloading it.

Level

intermediate

Location

src/sys/fileio/fretrieve.c

Examples

src/ts/examples/tutorials/extchem.c.html

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