Write pixel values (to standard out) for a box in a FITS images.
% boxpix.sh n3379.fits 871 873 476 478 199.195 218.284 215.384 231.240 206.822 229.479 202.931 233.999 226.428 boxpix.sh a.fits 120 130 210 290 arg1 - image name arg2 - i1 arg3 - i2 arg4 - j1 arg5 - j2This is not generally such useful code, but it provided a nice way to create test data files while learning how to use the Python numpy package.