Containerized execution

To simplify deployment, ICF utilities scripts and all their dependencies are packaged as a Singularity v3 container (download).

With the Singilarity image, icf.sif, all scripts are made directly available, either through singularity run:

$ singularity run <singularity options> icf.sif <script name> <script options>

or by making the image file executable.

The singularity image can also be installed as if it was a system package. For this, fill in the placeholders in the following script, and save it as icf-utils:

#!/bin/sh
set -e -u
singularity run -B <absolute-path-to-data> <absolute-path-to-icf.sif-file> "$@"

The -B defines a bind path, making it accessible from within the container.

Afterwards, install it under /usr/bin to make all functionality available under an icf-utils command.

$ sudo install -t /usr/bin icf-utils