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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 building
       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.  Dimensions,
       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)