NAME

       dicomfind - vtk-dicom CLI

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.

       --directory-only
              Do not scan files themselves if DICOMDIR is present.

       --ignore-dicomdir Ignore the DICOMDIR file even if it is present.

       --charset <cs>
              Charset to use if SpecificCharacterSet is missing.

       --help Print a brief help message.

       --version
              Print the software version.

       This command is like the UNIX "find" command, but for DICOM files.

       When  searching  for  files with a specific attribute (with "-k"), the tag can be in its hexadecimal form
       GGGG,EEEE or with its keyword form Modality=MR.  Alternatively, the tags can be listed in  a  query  file
       with the "-q" option (one tag per line).  Attributes nested within sequences can be specified by giving a
       tag  path  "-k  Tag1/Tag2/Tag3".   Either  a  forward  slash  or  a backslash can be used to separate the
       components of the path.  Private tags hould  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 <malat@debian.org> for the Debian  GNU/Linux  system,
       but may be used by others.

dicomfind 0.8.17                                  February 2025                                     DICOMFIND(1)