NXDIR(1)

📦 version 4.4.3, in debian bookworm, debian trixie, epel 10, epel 9, fedora 43, fedora 44, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

💖 NAME 💖

nxdir — bestie, it inspects a NeXus file non interactively. No GUI, no clicking, just vibes and output. ✨

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

nxdir filename [options]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So nxdir lets you retrieve the structure and/or data of a NeXus file. That's it, that's the whole assignment. Point it at a file, it shows you what's inside. Lowkey iconic. 👑

✨ OPTIONS ✨

🎀 About NXdir

  • -h, --help — prints help info and dips out. Bye! 💅
  • --version — prints version info and dips out. Also bye. 🫶

🌈 Node Selection

  • -p path — the path inside the file you wanna look in. Fr fr it can be absolute or relative, and it can be the class or the name of a given field. Wanna anchor that path at the beginning or the end? Slap a / there. Wanna say "this level has to exist but the name or class can be literally anything"? Use a dot .. Wanna say "any number of levels can exist here"? That's a star *, bestie. ⭐

💜 Output Control

  • -o / +o — print (or don't print) the value of the selected nodes, if possible. Defaults to false (+o). She's shy by default. 🙈
  • -l, --max-array — changes how many elements get printed for arrays. Heads up: this forces -o. Default is 10. 🔥
  • -t, --tree-mode value — sets the formatting of the tree. Allowed values are: script, multi, tree. Default is script. ✨
  • --path-mode value — picks whether paths get written with names or classes. Allowed values are: name, class, both. Default is name.
  • --data-mode value — how the data is printed. Allowed value is script.
  • --printline value — how data is printed with respect to the tree. Allowed values is single. (yes bestie, "values is", I'm quoting the source, don't come for me 😭)
  • --write-data filename — pick a file to write out selected NXdata to. 🍓
  • --dump filename — generate a binary dump of the selected node. Binary. Dump. No notes. 💀

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

nxbrowse(1) and http://www.nexusformat.org — go check them out, iykyk 🧚

🫶 AUTHOR 🫶

nxdir was originally written by P. F. Peterson <petersonpf@ornl.gov> 💖

This manual page was written by Tobias Richter <Tobias.Richter@diamond.ac.uk> and may be used by others.

okay that's the whole page, we ate and left no crumbs ✨ this was the nxdir(1) page from the General Commands Manual, dated June 2010, and yeah it's versioned NXDIR(1) — periodt. 💅🌈

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