RASLS(1NCARG)

💖 RASLS 💖

hey bestie!! you just opened the manual for rasls, which lives in the NCAR VIEW manual (1NCARG, section 1 — the "type it in your terminal" section, iykyk 🫶).

✨ NAME ✨

rasls — list information on rasterfiles 🌈

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

rasls [-type] [-count] [-resolution] [-verbose] [-Version] [-ifmt
file_format] [files]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Okay so here's the vibe: for each file you hand it, rasls spits out a one line description of the rasterfile. Bestie, it's literally a little summary card for every file ✨

The info it gives you includes:

• the format type (Sun, HDF, etc.)
• the encoding (indexed, direct, etc.)
• resolution
• the filename

And the sad ones? Files that cannot be read as rasterfiles, that are empty, that are directories, or that are otherwise unrecognizable — those just get listed as such. No drama, no crash, it just says what they are 🙈

💅 OPTIONS 💅

• -type — print the encoding type of the rasterfile. Currently this is gonna be either indexed or direct. That's it, that's the whole list.
• -count — print the number of frames in the raster file 🎞️
• -resolution — print the spatial resolution of a file in pixels 📐
• -help — print help information. our hero 🫶
• -verbose — print as much information as possible about each rasterfile 👑 Info provided is a combination of format-independent and format-dependent parameters. go off, verbose mode.
• -Version — print the version number ⭐ (capital V, bestie, don't forget — it's giving main character energy)
• -ifmt format — specify the input file format. format is one of the file name extensions discussed in ras_formats(5NCARG) — without the ".", e.g. xwd. When you use this option, file name extensions are not necessary and are ignored if present. Also: all input files must have the same format. No mixing, no matching, periodt 💀

heads up bestie: the synopsis line doesn't list -help, but the OPTIONS section does, so yeah, it's real 💜

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• rasview(1NCARG)
• rascat(1NCARG)
• rasgetpal(1NCARG)
• rasls(1NCARG)
• rassplit(1NCARG)
• ras_formats(5NCARG)
• ras_palette(5NCARG)

Hardcopy: NCAR Graphics Fundamentals, UNIX Version 📚

🎀 COPYRIGHT 🎀

Copyright (C) 1987-2009 University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

The use of this Software is governed by a License Agreement.

and that's the whole page, bestie!! 🦋 this was NCAR's finest, dated January 1993, from the NCARG crew — mwah, iconic, no cap 💖✨