IMEXTRACT(1)

👑 IMEXTRACT 💅

okay bestie, first thing: the manual name up top is User Commands — yeah, we're in section 1, the classics ✨ this is the page for imextract, and it's giving "get one image out of the pile". let's gooo 🦋

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🌸 NAME 🌸

imextract — AME 🫶

short, sweet, iconic. no notes, periodt.

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💖 SYNOPSIS 💖

so there are THREE ways to slide into this command and honestly? pick your fighter:

imextract [-vf] [-x ext] [kwn=valn] range file1.fit ... filen.fit

or:

imextract [-vf] [-o file] [kwn=valn] n filename

or:

imextract [-vf] [kwn=valn] n @filelist

those kwn=valn slots show up in every single one, bestie. every. single. one. 😭

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🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

Extract one FITS or IRAF image from a compound image. that's the whole plot. one image, out of the big compound pile, and you're done 💅

and hey, the three invocation forms look like this:

imextract [-vf] [-x ext] [kwn=valn] range file1.fit ... filen.fit

or:

imextract [-vf] [-o file] [kwn=valn] n filename

or:

imextract [-vf] [kwn=valn] n @filelist

now the deets on everything you can hand it 👇

• range — the images to extract, picked by sequence number 🌈
• -f — write FITS out for IRAF input
• -h — add a line to the header of each output file with the source
• -n — write out the name of the output file
• -o — specify the output file name (no extension though, mkay?)
• -s [char] — replace this character with a space in string values
• -v — verbose 🗣️
• -x — add this extension instead of _n

ngl bestie, that's genuinely the whole flag roster. no secret menu, no hidden extras. what you see is what you get 🍓

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and that's the page!! go forth and extract your little image out of its compound situation, you absolute main character 👑💖

this one came to you courtesy of imextract, source EB_SOURCE, dated February 2026 🌸 mwah, bye bestie 🫶✨