Logs the names, values and units of a set of EPICS channels to file. In the command invocation, channelfile is a file that contains the names of the channels to lookup and log. If channelfile is -, then the channels are taken from stdin. outfile is the name of a file to which the channels will be logged. If outfile is -, the output is sent to stdout.
The channel file is an ordinary text file that contains the names of EPICS channels, each channel is separated by whitespace (note that a newline counts as whitespace). No comments are allowed, in contrast to the form of input file expected by e.g. epicsdisplay. The following is a sample input file:
Z001DV Z002DH
Z003DV
Z004QA
Z012QB
This file will output the values and units for 5 channels: Z001DV, Z002DH, Z003DV, Z004QA and Z004QA.
Output will consist of a line of text for each channel in the input file. Each line will consist of a set of white-space separated components. The first component is the name of a channel followed by a colon. The second element is the channel value. The final element is the channel engineering units.
If the value of a channel cannot be gotten, the remainder of the line following the channel name will be the error message generated for that channel for example: Z001DH: ca_pend_io failed User specified timeout on IO operation expired.
All of the examples assume that a file named channels.txt has been created that contains the set of channel names of interest, and that chanlog is in your path.