A Singularity container and wrapper script for baton.

The Singularity image can be built from the recipe file and placed somewhere in your PATH or alongside the wrapper script. (Note that the wrapper script will build the image automatically if it cannot find it in the aforementioned locations.)

The wrapper script runs the baton image with the given arguments. It will automatically bind mount your iRODS environment configuration, associated dependencies and, if necessary, Kerberos configuration. If you specify any --file arguments, those will also be mounted in the container transparently.

Note that the baton suite of programs are prefixed with baton- (e.g., baton-list). The image exposes these instead as separate apps and they can be used through the wrapper script as subcommands. For example:

baton -c "/my/collection" | baton-metaquery --obj

...should be rewritten as:

baton -c "/my/collection" | baton metaquery --obj

However, for convenience -- and so you won't need to change any of your scripts -- the wrapper script also handles the hyphenated-style suite of programs, with appropriate symlinks provided.