This program displays metadata/data header/configuration information associated with one or more data files. The following file types are supported:

• Search-mode PSRFITS
• DAS .spec filterbank format
• SIGPROC .fil filterbank format (including the headerless version, provided a .fhd configuration file is present in the same directory)
• SIGPROC .tim time series format
• PRESTO .dat time series format

Usage:

The options are:

• -h or --help: Display a short help text.
• -v or --version: Display the version.

The data file name may be a composed of standard shell wildcards such as * or ?.

Examples:

The following displays the metadata for the SIGPROC filterbank file data.fil. If this is a headerless filterbank file, it is expected that a file with metadata information, named data.fhd is present in the same directory as the data file.

The following displays the metadata for all PRESTO dedispersed time series files in the /data directory.