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Setting up environment for FreeSurfer/FS-FAST (and FSL)

FREESURFER_HOME   /Applications/freesurfer

FSFAST_HOME       /Applications/freesurfer/fsfast

FSF_OUTPUT_FORMAT nii.gz

SUBJECTS_DIR      /Applications/freesurfer/subjects

MNI_DIR           /Applications/freesurfer/mni

Jordans-MacBook-Air-2:~ jordanfowler$ > cp $FREESURFER_HOME/subjects/sample-001.mgz .

-bash: /Applications/freesurfer/subjects/sample-001.mgz: Permission denied