MINCCOMPLETE(1) User Contributed Perl Documentation MINCCOMPLETE(1)NAME
minccomplete - checks if a MINC file is complete
SYNOPSIS
minccomplete [options] <file.mnc>
minccomplete is designed as a QC tool that you can use to check if MINC or xfm files have been completely written.
DESCRIPTION
minccomplete will check if a file exists and is completely written. The reasons for non-completion are varied but typically caused when a
process writing a MINC or xfm file is interrupted. A zero will be returned if the file is complete and a -1 if it isn't.
Examples:
$ minccomplete in.mnc
0
$ minccomplete in.xfm
0
A MINC file is returned as complete if the image attribute image:complete is set. ie:
mincinfo -attvalue image:complete infile.mnc
A xfm file is deemed complete if xfm2param can parse the file. The associated exit codes will also be set as part of this so that
minccomplete can be used in scripts.
An entirely simplistic example:
#! /bin/sh
infile=$1
if [ `minccomplete ${infile}` ]
then
echo "Yes!"
else
echo "Nope, try again"
fi
Problems or comments should be sent to: a.janke@gmail.com
OPTIONS -v, --verbose
Be noisy when doing things
--version
Print version number and exit
-h, --help
Dump some quick help output
--man
Dump a man page
-e, --error_string
Don't die on errors (eg: file not found) and print the supplied value instead
SEE ALSO mincheader(1)mincinfo(1)xfm2param(1)AUTHOR
Andrew Janke - a.janke@gmail.com
COPYRIGHTS
Copyright 2000 by Andrew L Janke
perl v5.14.2 2012-03-09 MINCCOMPLETE(1)
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MINCINFO(1) MINC User's Guide MINCINFO(1)NAME
mincinfo - print out specified information about a minc file
SYNOPSIS
mincinfo [<options>] <file> [<file> ...]
DESCRIPTION
mincinfo will print out either a general description of a minc file (type, sign and range of data, plus a brief description of dimensions
and their order), or specific information about dimensions, variables or attributes in the file. This program can be very useful for build-
ing shell scripts that access minc files.
All information given by mincinfo is presented as read from the file with no transformation. This means that start and step values, for
example, are not in the world coordinate system. To display the start values for a file in world coordinates, use voxeltoworld.
OPTIONS
Note that options can be specified in abbreviated form (as long as they are unique) and can be given anywhere on the command line. Dimen-
sions, variables and attributes are all specified by name. Attributes are specified by variable:attribute where variable can be omitted to
specify global attributes. More than one option can be specified, in which case the return value from each option is printed on a separate
line (-image_info prints on many lines) in the order of the options on the command line.
-image_info
Print out the default general information about the file. This information includes the type, sign and range of the pixel data, the
order of the dimensions, and a list of dimensions giving name, length, start and step for each one.
-dimnames
Print out a space-separated list of the dimensions in the file.
-varnames
Print out a space-separated list of the variables in the file.
-dimlength dimension
Print the length of the specified dimension.
-vartype variable
Print the type of the variable.
-vardims variable
Print a space-separated list of the dimensions that subscript the variable (in C order).
-varatts variable
Print a space-separated list of the attribute names for the specified variable.
-varvalues variable
Print a newline-separated list of the values of the specified variable.
-atttype variable:attribute
Print out the type of the specified attribute.
-attvalue variable:attribute
Print out a space-separated list of the values of the specified attribute.
-error_string string
Specifies a string to print out if an error occurs. This will cause the program to exit with normal status. The default is to print
an appropriate error message and exit with an error status.
-help Print summary of command-line options and abort.
-version
Print the program's version number and exit.
EXAMPLES
Print out standard information about a minc file.
mincinfo file.mnc
Print out contents of global history attribute.
mincinfo file.mnc -attvalue :history
Print out step value for x dimension, setting the default value to 1.
mincinfo file.mnc -attvalue xspace:step -error 1
Print out the step values for x, y and z, setting the default value to 1.
mincinfo file.mnc -error 1
-attvalue xspace:step
-attvalue yspace:step
-attvalue zspace:step
Print out the names of the dimensions subscripting the image variable.
mincinfo file.mnc -vardims image
AUTHOR
Peter Neelin
COPYRIGHTS
Copyright (C) 1993 by Peter Neelin
SEE ALSO voxeltoworld(1)
$Date: 2004-05-20 21:52:08 $ MINCINFO(1)