Extract one line of values out of a PAM image. More information: https://netpbm.sourceforge.net/doc/pamslice.html.
pamslice {{[-r|-row]}} {{n}} {{path/to/image.pam}}
pamslice {{[-c|-column]}} {{n}} {{path/to/image.pam}}
pamslice {{[-r|-row]}} {{n}} -plane {{m}} {{path/to/image.pam}}
xmgr for visualisation:pamslice {{[-r|-row]}} {{n}} {{[-x|-xmgr]}} {{path/to/image.pam}}