When the file is opened nxbrowse will print out its version number and the contents of the NXroot node of
the NeXus file followed by its prompt: NX>
These case insensitive commands are recognised:
help Give out list of available commands. Synonym: infoexit Exit the program. Synonym: quitdir List the contents of the current group. Synonym: lsopengroupName
Open the NeXus group groupName. Same as: cdgroupNameclose Closes the NeXus group groupName, i.e. moves up one level in the hierarchy. Same as: cd..readdataItem[dimensionindicies...]
Print the contents of the NeXus data item labelled dataItem. dimensionindicies is an optional
comma separated list of dimensions of the correct rank to specify one value.
dumpdataItemfileName
Write the contents of the NeXus data item labelled dataItem to a new file named fileName.
byteaschar
Toggle treating (signed and unsigned) byte data as characters.
If your version of nxbrowse has been compiled with readline support you can use tab completion for
commands, groups and data.