parser.add_option("--bank-cache",metavar="filenames",help="Set the bank cache files in format H1=H1.cache,H2=H2.cache, etc..")
parser.add_option("--channel",metavar="name",default=[],action="append",help="Set the name of the channel to process (optional). The default is \"LSC-STRAIN\" for all detectors. Override with IFO=CHANNEL-NAME can be given multiple times")
parser.add_option("--ht-gate-threshold",metavar="float",help="Set the h(t) gate threshold to reject glitches",type="float")
parser.add_option("--num-banks",metavar="int",type="int",help="the number of banks per job")
parser.add_option("--num-banks",metavar="str",help="the number of banks per job. can be given as a list like 1,2,3,4 then it will split up the bank cache into N groups with M banks each.")
parser.add_option("--max-jobs",metavar="num",type="int",help="stop parsing the cache after reaching a certain number of jobs")