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# DIR_NAME : /home/me/data/tiffs/ # DATASET_NAME: image-01 # SHAPE: 3,4 # FILE_NAME 00001.tif 00002.tif 00003.tif 00004.tif 00005.tif 00006.tif 00007.tif 00008.tif 00009.tif 00010.tif 00011.tif 00012.tif |
The header needs to contain # DIR_NAME followed by a colon then the path to directory the files are in.
Then (possibly multiple) # DATASET_NAME entries, which are the names of the datasets you wish to link
An optional # SHAPE entry if the data should not just be stacked
Then # FILE_NAME followed by the name of the file (found in the directory specified by DIR_NAME). If the files are spread across multiple directories, DIR_NAME can be the root directory (/) then the FILE_NAME would be home/me/data/tiffs/00001.tif etc
Additional datasets can be added to this file (for example the I0 value associated with each frame) by adding more tab-separated columns in addition to the FILE_NAME column.
Creating Link Files using the Command Line
If you are confident using the command line on Windows or Linux the list of files required for this file can be easily created.
Navigate to the folder containing the files and:
On windows type: dir /b > my_link_file.dawn
On Linux type: ls > my_link_file.dawn
The file created, my_link_file.dawn, should contain a list of all the files in the directory which the header can then be added to. As with most command-line tools wildcard matching can be used to only select certain files during the ls or dir step.