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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to handle grepping variable data containing wildcards? Post 302983359 by abercrom on Monday 10th of October 2016 03:06:31 PM
Old 10-10-2016
I appreciate the suggestion. I need the labels for characterizing data in the output, so I'm hanging onto those until I get into the loop where I then separate them and use them both. Also, I'm doing additional things inside the while loop that I didn't include in the post.
The main point of my post was to find out why I wasn't able to get wildcards to work properly. I wasn't expecting to find out that I had overlooked quoting the variable, so I included the other information because I thought it might be helpful for resolving the problem.
Anyway, thanks again for the suggestion! I may use it for another project.
 

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Name
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Synopsis
       sethead [-dknv][r letter] <FITS or IRAF file> kw1=val1 kw2=val2 ... kwn=valuen

Description
       Set parameters in the header of a FITS or IRAF image.  If the keywords do not already exist, they are added at the end of the header.  Val-
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       -h     Write HISTORY line into output header with sethead version, current date and time, and names of keywords set.

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