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# 1.1. Overview

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The calino package provides a command-line interface for performing tasks such as creating textures, validating textures, and extracting texture data to various file formats. The base calino command is broken into a number of subcommands which are documented over the following sections.

### 1.1.2. Command-Line Overview

    calino: INFO: Usage: calino [options] [command] [command options]

      Options:
        --verbose
          Set the minimum logging verbosity level.
          Default: info
          Possible Values: [trace, debug, info, warn, error]

      Use the "help" command to examine specific commands:

        $ calino help help.

      Command-line arguments can be placed one per line into a file, and the file
      can be referenced using the @ symbol:

        $ echo help > file.txt
        $ echo help >> file.txt
        $ calino @file.txt

      Commands:
        check                        Check a texture file.
        create-2d                    Create a 2D texture from an existing image.
        create-array                 Create an array texture from an existing image.
        create-cube                  Create a cube texture from existing images.
        extract-image-data-2d        Extract 2D image data from a file
        extract-image-data-array     Extract array image data from a file
        extract-image-data-cube      Extract cube image data from a file
        help                         Show detailed help messages for commands.
        show-image-info              Display texture file image info.
        show-metadata                Display texture file metadata.
        show-sections                List sections in a texture file
        show-summary                 Display information about texture files.
        show-version                 Display texture file version.
        version                      Display the application version.

      Documentation:
        https://www.io7m.com/software/calino/documentation/index.xhtml

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All of the command-line functionality is implemented using the standard calino APIs. Applications wishing to do more advanced image processing should use those APIs directly.
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