Issues w/ LAStools @ Linux

[hyd...@gmail.com]

Hey!

We've been experimenting with the new LAStools @ linux distribution, and we've noticed the following issues:

- lasindex64 with -append flag still generates LAX files in addition to the LAZ files

- lastile64 seems to output files with a windows-like seperator (i.e. folder\file.laz instead of folder/file.laz) <--- this is an issue for automation when we e.g. want to prepare a "list of files" text file using the find command

- The licence file can only be read if you run the executables from the same folder where the license exists. For example, if we have /opt/LAStools/bin/.... then we HAVE to run everything within /opt/LAStools/bin/, and we CANNOT use absolute paths (e.g. running /opt/LAStools/bin/lastile64... from a /home/user path).

Hoping these could be fixed in the next release :)

[Jochen Rapidlasso]

Hi,

thanks for this information's. We will have a look at this.

About the license file:

You can reference the license file in a different directory using

    export LAStoolsLicenseFile=~/somewhere/lastoolslicense.txt

This location is checked if the license file is not found in the current path.

Best,

Jochen

[hyd...@gmail.com]

Thanks Jochen!

Let me know if you have any updates we can test out, or if you have any questions regarding how to reproduce this.

Best,

Idan

[Daniel Garcia]

Hi,

I'm also experimenting the same issue with lastile64 running on Linux: appends a Windows folder separator (\) to the path, so doesn't store the output tile in the indicated folder, just creates a new file in the input folder with name like 'folder\xxxxx-xxxx.laz'

Any update or work around with this issue?

Many thanks in advance.

Best regards,

Daniel.

[Jochen Rapidlasso]

Hi Daniel,

this seems just to appear in some circumstances.

Please tell:

- how does the command you are running look like? Please give the complete command line.

- what version do you use?

Thanks,

Jochen @rapidlasso

[Daniel Garcia]

Hi, Jochen

I'm running it on a CentOS 8.2.2004 system, with Lastools version 231204.

The command I use is: lastile64 -i /my/input/folder/*.laz -odir /my/other/folder/TILE/ -olaz -tile_size 2000 -buffer 100 -cores 8 -vv

When I run it, it starts to generate files under /my/other/folder/ with a name layout like: 'TILE\194000_4756000.laz' (notice de single quotes)

It looks like the command appends a double backslash character and ignores the last slash in the -odir parameter. This way is how I could reproduce a file generation with touch command in Linux  with that kind of name layout.

Thanks for the fast answer. Best regards,

Daniel.

[Jochen Rapidlasso]

Hi Daniel,

thanks for the detailed description. We could localize and fix the problem now.

Please get the latest version (240115) - see https://rapidlasso.de/lastools-linux/ and check if everything is working now as expected.

Best regards,

Jochen @rapidlasso

[Daniel Garcia]

Hi again, Jochen

I've been making some tests and looks like it works perfectly now. Great and fast job!

Many thanks!

Best regards,

Daniel García.

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