Q: Hello all, I’m attaching Mincinfo, an old perl script I wrote, at the time to some extent to be able to run mincinfo on multiple files. Now later versions of mincinfo can already do that, but I still like this script as it allows you to have some control over the output formatting. I just fixed it up to not depend on MNI::Spawn and friends but instead use more standard perl libraries. I think it might be a useful addition to the base minc distribution; and if not, well here it is for anybody interested. I would check it in cvs myself but I wasn’t quite sure where one would put general utilities like this (of which I am sure quite a number are floating around)

Example of use (a fixed-width font comes in handy :):

$ Mincinfo -quiet -tab -file -dimensions -trte site_project_123.001.*
site_project_123.001.flair.mnc.gz 46 256 256
8.0020000000000006679 0.11550000000000000544
site_project_123.001.pd.mnc.gz 54 256 256
3.2000000000000001776 0.021936001000000000111
site_project_123.001.t1.mnc.gz 110 256 256
0.021000000000000001305 0.0080000000000000001665
site_project_123.001.t2.mnc.gz 54 256 256
3.2000000000000001776 0.087744003000000000969
http://www.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/pipermail/minc-users/2008-August/002162.html

A:Interesting, my current plan for these sorts of things is here:

  http://packages.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/scripts/

With eventually a write up of each of them in a wiki somewhere. (like wikibooks). FWIW here is my (sort of) equivalent: :)

  http://mavis.anu.edu.au/minc-beta/mi

The major difference being that it is for the likes of myself with busted hands so that you can just go in a dir and type:

  $ mi

And get a nice listing with nothing more needed. Same with:

  http://mavis.anu.edu.au/minc-beta/mp
  http://mavis.anu.edu.au/minc-beta/mc

which are the equivalent for mincpik (yes, yes Danish users, laugh away) and minccomplete.

But you are right, I would be very wary of including anything in the base MINC distro which has a dependency on mni_perllib.