command

Issue a command to a running collect action.

GUI Equivalent

Syntax

-command=<value>

Arguments

<value>	Description
mark	Place time-stamped mark in the data that can be referenced during analysis.
pause	Temporarily suspend the collection process. Use `-command resume` when you are ready to continue collection.
resume	Continue collection on a paused collection process.
status	Print collection status.
stop	Terminate a running collection process. Alternatively, use `ctrl + c`.

Modifiers

result-dir, user-data-dir

Description

This option performs one of the following actions on a running collect action: pause, resume, stop, status, or mark. Use with result-dir to specify the result directory for the running analysis.

Example

This example terminates the collect process in the default directory.

$ amplxe-cl -command stop

Run an unlimited duration collect process, which runs until stopped.

$ amplxe-cl -collect advanced-hotspots -duration unlimited -r ./results/r002ah

In another window, use -command stop to terminate the process running in the result directory results/r002ah, specified by the -r option (shortname of result-dir).

 $ amplxe-cl -command stop -r ./results/r002ah