PAD-FILE(1)

📦 version 0.98, in debian bookworm, debian trixie, fedora 43, fedora 44, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

✨ PAD-FILE(1) ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to pad-file from the astrometry.net squad 🫶 this is the little cutie that makes your FITS files the correct size, no cap.

🌸 NAME 🌸

pad-file — pad a FITS file out to the correct size 💅

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

pad-file desired-length input-file [input-file ...]

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

So here's the vibe: the file gets padded in-place. That's it, that's the whole thing. And by default? It gets padded with zeros. iconic behaviour tbh.

✨ OPTIONS ✨

  • -v n — the numerical value of the character you wanna pad with 🔢
  • -c c — the character you wanna pad with 🔤

👑 AUTHOR 👑

The Astrometry.net team, obviously. The principal investigators are David W. Hogg (NYU) and Dustin Lang (CMU). kings fr fr 👑

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

and that's the whole page bestie, we ate that 💅✨ this was version 0.56, dated July 2015, brought to you by astrometry.net 🦋 mwah, go pad something 🎀💖

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