usdupdatecrate - Man Page

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Description

usage: usdupdatecrate [-h] [--root DIR] [--olderThan VERSION]

[--exclude PATTERN] [--output FILE]

[--saveWorkList FILE] [--fromWorkList FILE] [--update | --cleanup] [--noCleanup] [--preserveAttrs | --noPreserveAttrs] [--workers N] [--batchSize N] [--walkThreads N] [--quiescenceTimeout SECONDS] [--perFileTimeout SECONDS]

Find and optionally update Pixar USD crate (.usd/.usdc) files older than a given version.

By default the script reports matching files to stdout and takes no action. With --update it opens each file via Sdf.Layer.FindOrOpen() and re-exports it, which causes USD to write the file at the current crate version.

Updates are performed safely: each file is exported to a sibling temp path, its new crate version is verified, and only then is the temp atomically renamed over the original.  The original is left untouched on any failure.

Note on hard links: an update replaces the original directory entry via os.replace().  Any other names that were hard-linked to the original inode continue to refer to the unchanged inode and so retain the old content.

options

-h, --help

show this help message and exit

--root DIR

Root directory to search (default: current working directory).

--olderThan VERSION

Identify crate files with version older than this (major.minor.patch, default: 0.8.0).

--exclude PATTERN

Exclude files whose path relative to --root matches this fnmatch pattern. May be specified multiple times. Excluded subdirectories are pruned before descent.

--output FILE

Write matching file list to FILE instead of stdout.

--saveWorkList FILE

Save the deduplicated to-update file list to FILE before any update runs. Useful as a manual two-step staging point or for crash recovery.

--fromWorkList FILE

Read candidate files from FILE instead of walking --root. --root, --exclude, and --walkThreads are ignored when this is set.

--update

Update matched files by re-exporting them via Sdf.Layer.

--cleanup

Standalone mode: walk --root and remove stale *.usdupdatecrate.*.tmp.* files left behind by crashed or killed prior runs, then exit. Honors --exclude and --walkThreads.

--noCleanup

During an --update run, skip the implicit removal of stale temp files discovered by the walk. Has no effect in --cleanup mode (which is itself a cleanup).

--preserveAttrs

Preserve the original file's mode and ownership on the updated file. If the mode or ownership cannot be matched (e.g. insufficient privilege to chown), the update for that file is treated as failed and the original is left untouched. Default: on (POSIX), unsupported (Windows).

--noPreserveAttrs

Disable preservation of original mode and ownership. Updated files take on the running user's uid/gid and umask-respecting mode.

--workers N

Explicit number of worker processes. Overrides --batchSize.

--batchSize N

Number of files per pool task (default: 16). Files are split into batches of this size and dispatched across workers via imap_unordered. Smaller is safer (smaller crash blast radius, better work-stealing); larger amortizes per-task overhead. Ignored if --workers is given.

--walkThreads N

Number of threads for parallel directory enumeration (default: 32). Set to 1 to use a single-threaded os.walk() instead.

--quiescenceTimeout SECONDS

Update pool driver: if no chunk-result arrives for this many seconds, treat any not-yet-completed chunks as crashed/hung and recover them via per-file subprocess isolation (default: 120). Raise this if you have legitimately long-running chunks.

--perFileTimeout SECONDS

Recovery: hard cap on a single file's isolated subprocess (default: 60). If exceeded, the subprocess is terminated and the file recorded as an ERROR_CRASH.

Info

July 2026 usdupdatecrate 26.08