debian man page for nxbrowse

NXBROWSE(1)						      General Commands Manual						       NXBROWSE(1)

NAME
       nxbrowse - browse a NeXus file

SYNOPSIS
       nxbrowse [filename]

DESCRIPTION
       nxbrowse  asks for a filename is none is given on the command line. The file is opened and can be interactively explored using the commands
       described below.

OPTIONS
       No command line options are supported.

COMMANDS
       When the file is opened nxbrowse will print out its version number and the contents of the NXroot node of the NeXus file  followed  by  its
       prompt: NX>
       These case insensitive commands are recognised:

       help   Give out list of available commands. Synonym: info

       exit   Exit the program. Synonym: quit

       dir    List the contents of the current group. Synonym: ls

       open groupName
	      Open the NeXus group groupName. Same as: cd groupName

       close  Closes the NeXus group groupName, i.e. moves up one level in the hierarchy. Same as: cd ..

       read dataItem [dimension indicies ...]
	      Print  the  contents of the NeXus data item labelled dataItem.  dimension indicies is an optional comma separated list of dimensions
	      of the correct rank to specify one value.

       dump dataItem fileName
	      Write the contents of the NeXus data item labelled dataItem to a new file named fileName.

       byteaschar
	      Toggle treating (signed and unsigned) byte data as characters.

       If your version of nxbrowse has been compiled with readline support you can use tab completion for commands, groups and data.

SEE ALSO
       nxdir(1) http://www.nexusformat.org

AUTHOR
       nxbrowse was originally written by Ray Osborn <ROsborn@anl.gov>

       This manual page was written by Tobias Richter <Tobias.Richter@diamond.ac.uk> and may be used by others.

								     June 2010							       NXBROWSE(1)