---
name: "clp"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "coinor-clp"
version: "1.17.10+ds-1"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/clp"
---

# clp(1)

linear program solver

## NAME

clp - linear program solver

## SYNOPSIS

**clp** filename \[ options \] solutionfile\

## DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the **clp** command.

**clp** -- interface to the coin linear programming solver. **clp** solves the following linear optimization program:

    minimize      c^t x\
     such that:    row\_lb \<= Ax \<= row\_ub\
                   column\_lb \<= x \<= column\_ub

## OPTIONS

When no options are given clp enters the interactive command line mode. Otherwise the program enters a batch mode, for which a summary of options is included below.  For a complete description, see  **/usr/share/doc/coinor-libclp-doc.**

- **-help**

  Show summary of options.

- **-primalsimplex**

  solve the problem using the primal simplex method

- **-dualsimplex**

  solve the problem using the dual simplex method

- **-maximize**

  maximize the problem\

## SEE ALSO

[**glpsol**(1)](/glpsol/1.md),[**dsdp5**(1)](/dsdp5/1.md)

This program is fully documented in the accompanying html documentation which can be found in **/usr/share/doc/coinor-libclp-doc** if the coinor-libclp-doc package is installed.

## AUTHOR

clp was written by John J. Forrest \<jjforre@us.ibm.com\> et.al.

This manual page was written by Soeren Sonnenburg \<sonne@debian.org\>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).