#!/usr/bin/env python

from os import system
from sys import argv

program = 'mk5take'
version = '0.2'
author  = 'Walter Brisken'
verdate = '20090412'

def usage(prog):
	print '\n%s ver %s  %s  %s' % (program, version, author, verdate)
	print '\nA program to stop the Mark5A program on selected Mark5 units, allowing,'
	print 'among other things, use of the software correlator.'
	print '\nUsage:  %s [options] <unit1> [<unit2> ... ] ]' % prog
	print '\nOptions can include:'
	print '  --help'
	print '  -h         Print this help information and quit\n'
	print '  --verbose'
	print '  -v         Print command to execute to the terminal\n'
	print 'One or more Mark5 units should be specified with <unit> arguments.'
	print 'Units are specified with 2 digit numbers, e.g., 08 or 11.  If multiple'
	print 'units are specified, separate with spaces.  Note that a range of units'
	print 'can be specified with a hyphen, e.g., 07-12 and that multiple ranges'
	print 'can be specified, e.g., 07-16 19-23 .\n'
	print 'Internally this program uses the "stopmark5a" option of mk5control.\n'
	exit(0)

verbose = False

cmd = 'mk5control stopmark5a'
for a in argv[1:]:
	if a in ['-h', '--help']:
		usage(argv[0])
	elif a in ['-v', '--verbose']:
		verbose = True
	else:
		cmd = cmd + ' %s' % a

if verbose:
	print 'Executing: %s' % cmd

system(cmd)