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The MINC tools use a large and sometimes bewildering set of command line
options to control the behavior of the tools. Rather than treat
each tool separately, this section will attempt to explain some of the
more common command line options.
Most options are introduced with a single ``dash'' character.
Many of these command line options have default values, so if you
don't explicitly specify a value, the program will just assume that
you want the ``normal'' behavior. The default options are indicated
in bold type in each entry below.
- -version - This option will cause the tool to print its
version number and exit. No other action will be taken.
- -help - This option asks the tool to print a
summary of all of the options that it recognizes, with brief descriptions
of each option.
- -noclobber and -clobber - These options control
whether or not a MINC tool will overwrite an existing output file.
Normal behavior of all MINC tools is to refuse to replace an existing
file. For example, if you already have a file named ``test.mnc'' in
the same directory as ``input.mnc'', and you type the following:
mincreshape -transverse -noclobber input.mnc test.mnc
The program would refuse to run, because doing so would destroy the
existing test.mnc file. If you specify the -clobber option, the
program would replace the existing file with the new output file.
- -quiet and -verbose - Specifying
'-verbose' will cause the program to print a more extensive list of
intermediate actions and calculations, which may be useful for
debugging. Specifying '-quiet' will suppress most of these messages.
- -2 - This option tells the program to produce a MINC 2
format output file.
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Robert VINCENT
2004-05-28