lessfits: Command line script for paging through a FITS file's headers

lessfits

#!/bin/bash

# This script is released under an "MIT License"; see https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT 
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# Copyright (c) 2016 Henry Roe ([email protected])
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if [ $# -ne 1 ]
then
  echo "lessfits requires a single filename, e.g.:"
  echo "lessfits n1001.fits"
  echo " or "
  echo "lessfits n1001.fits.gz"
  exit 1
fi

python -c "import gzip
cur_filename = '"$1"'
openfile = (lambda x: gzip.open(x, 'r') if cur_filename.endswith('.gz') else lambda x: open(x, 'r')) 
with openfile(cur_filename) as f:
    curline = f.read(80)
    while not curline.startswith('END                            '):
        print(curline)
        curline = f.read(80)
    print(curline)" | less
    
exit 0