Thanks! If you're ever looking for a feature request, then, that's mine :)

Best, -Nate

On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 12:10 PM, Douglas N Greve greve@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu wrote:

no, sorry doug On 03/20/2014 11:28 AM, Nate Vack wrote:

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Hi,

I'm testing mri_convert for our dicom conversion needs; one thing that would be fantastic is to be able to feed it a .tar.gz (or .zip) containing a dicom series we'd like to convert. Is there a way to do that?

Alternately, if there were a way to make it use stdin, I could just pipe the output of tar to it.

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FYI, you can also get the first file like this:

first_file=$(tar ztf ${in_file} | head -1)

It will be much faster than 'find'.

On 03/20/2014 05:18 PM, Nate Vack wrote:

Also, for what it's worth, here's a little script that wraps this up:

https://gist.github.com/njvack/9674025

Best, -Nate

On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 12:29 PM, Nate Vack njvack@wisc.edu wrote:

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Thanks! If you're ever looking for a feature request, then, that's mine :)

Best, -Nate

On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 12:10 PM, Douglas N Greve greve@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu wrote:

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no, sorry doug On 03/20/2014 11:28 AM, Nate Vack wrote:

...

Hi,

I'm testing mri_convert for our dicom conversion needs; one thing that would be fantastic is to be able to feed it a .tar.gz (or .zip) containing a dicom series we'd like to convert. Is there a way to do that?

Alternately, if there were a way to make it use stdin, I could just pipe the output of tar to it.

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On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 5:58 PM, Chris Watson Christopher.Watson@childrens.harvard.edu wrote:

FYI, you can also get the first file like this:

first_file=$(tar ztf ${in_file} | head -1)

Not to beat this to death, but sometimes this returns a directory name instead of a file name. So `find -type f` is safer, unless there's some way to make tar not do the directory name thing.

-n