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## Switches Common to All Tools

The following switches are common to mrsidinfo, mrsiddecode, mrsidencode, mrsidoptimize and mrsidtile.

-h or -?

Show short usage message

-help

Show detailed usage message

-v or -version

Show version information

-credits

Show credits and copyrights

-quiet

Don't show informational messages. This does not affect the `logfile` output.

-log STRING

Write output to log file. This does not affect the `stdout` output.

-progress STRING

Progress meter style: `none | default | timer`

If the environment variable `LT_NITF_IMAGENUM` is set to a number, the NITF decode applications (mrsiddecode, mrsidinfo, mrsidviewer) will attempt to open only the image with the segment number given by the environment variable. Note that image segments are numbered starting at 1, not zero. The default is to attempt to open all segments as a mosaic of images.