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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Need explanation for $PS1, $PS2, $PS3, $PS4 Post 302401225 by pludi on Friday 5th of March 2010 07:27:50 AM
Old 03-05-2010
From man bash, similar in man ksh
Quote:
PS1 The value of this parameter is expanded (see PROMPTING below) and used as the primary prompt string. The default value is ``\s-\v\$ ''.
PS2 The value of this parameter is expanded as with PS1 and used as the secondary prompt string. The default is ``> ''.
PS3 The value of this parameter is used as the prompt for the select command (see SHELL GRAMMAR above).
PS4 The value of this parameter is expanded as with PS1 and the value is printed before each command bash displays during an execution trace. The first character of PS4 is replicated multiple times, as necessary, to indicate multiple levels of indirection. The default is ``+ ''.
 

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dcentvfy

DCENTVFY(1)						DICOM PS3 - Validate DICOM entities					       DCENTVFY(1)

NAME

       dcentvfy - ACR/NEMA DICOM PS3 ... DICOM PS3 - Validate DICOM entities

SYNOPSIS

       dcentvfy " inputfile1 [ inputfile2 ... ]" [ -v|verbose|vv|veryverbose ] [ -f|-filelist  filename ]

DESCRIPTION

       dcentvfy  reads	the named dicom files (and/or the files listed in the specified file), extracts patient, study, series and instance entity
       unique identifiers and then validates that the attribute values defined in the standard for those entities have consistent values  for  the
       same entity.

OPTIONS

       The description and verbose output go to standard error.

       The basic input switches are described in dcintro(1). Options specific to this program are:

       -v|verbose
	      Describe as files are read and analyzed and the model of entity relationships to instances is built.

       -vv|veryverbose
	      Describe the detailed behavior of comparison of each attribute for each entity for each instance.

       -f|filelist filename
	      A file containing a list of DICOM input files (one filename per line).

ENVIRONMENT


EXAMPLES


FILES


SEE ALSO

       dciodvfy(1), dcintro(1)

AUTHOR

       Copyright (C) 1993-2010. David A. Clunie DBA PixelMed Publishing. All rights reserved.

BUGS

DICOM PS3							 28 September 2008						       DCENTVFY(1)
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