DESCRIPTION

usage:

dicomfind [options] <directory> ...

options:

-L

Follow symbolic links (default).

-P

Do not follow symbolic links.

-k tag=value

Provide an attribute to be queried and matched.

-q <query.txt>

Provide a file to describe the find query.

-u <uids.txt>

Provide a file that contains a list of UIDs.

-maxdepth n

Set the maximum directory depth.

-name pattern

Set a pattern to match (with "*" or "?").

-image

Restrict the search to files with PixelData.

-series

Find all files in series if even one file matches.

-print

Print the filenames of all matched files (default).

-print0

Print the filenames with terminating null, for xargs.

-exec ... +

Execute the given command for every series matched.

-exec ... \;

Execute the given command for every file matched.

-execdir ... +

Go to directory and execute command on every series.

-execdir ... \; Go to directory and execute command on every file.

--help

Print a brief help message.

--version

Print the software version.

This command can be used to locate DICOM files. It shares many features with the UNIX "find" command. When searching for files with a specific attribute (with "-k"), the tag can be specified in the form GGGG,EEEE or with its canonical name e.g. Modality=MR from the DICOM dictionary. Alternately, the tags can be listed in a query file given with the "-q" option (one tag per line). Attributes nested within sequences can be specified by giving a tag path e.g. "-k Tag1/Tag2/Tag3". Either a forward slash or a backslash can be used to separate the components of the path. Private tags should be preceded by the private dictionary name in square brackets.

The "-exec" and "-execdir" arguments cause dicomfind to run the specified program on the found files. For example, to dump each file one would use "-exec dicomdump {} \;" where each instance of {} will be replaced by a found file, and ";" indicates the end of the args to dicomdump. Alternately, if "+" is used to end the args, then the program will be run on each DICOM series and {} will be replaced by all files in the series. The "-execdir" argument is similar, except that it runs the program from within the directory of the file (or files), and {} is replaced by just the filenames instead of with the full paths.

AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Mathieu Malaterre <[email protected]> for the Debian GNU/Linux system, but may be used by others.