Re: Automate ferret

[Elizabeth Dobbins <Elizabeth.Dobbins@xxxxxxxx>]

Hi Rolando;

For this type of problem, I've used a shell script that uses ncks in the 
NCO routines, rather than ferret.  John Hunter just mentioned these in a 
reply to a question by Yun Li.  The web site is 
http://nco.sourceforge.net/nco.html.  Refer to the manual sections for the 
exact syntax.

Below is my script for reference.  It copies a bunch of 2D variables, then 
the top and bottom levels of some 3D variables to a new file.  It 
generates lots of little files, but you could easily add a line that 
concatinates the little files together with ncrcat, or just use a ferret 
descriptor file.



#!/bin/csh

foreach FILE ( `ls -1 nep3*.nc` )
  set NEWF=slice_$FILE
  echo Copying variables from $FILE to $NEWF

  ncks -v ocean_time,Hsbl,zeta,ubar,vbar,sustr,svstr -O $FILE $NEWF
  ncks -v u,v -F -d s_rho,1 -A  $FILE $NEWF
  ncrename -v u,ubot -v v,vbot -O $NEWF
  ncks -v temp,salt,u,v -F -d s_rho,30 -A $FILE $NEWF
  ncrename -v temp,ttop -v salt,stop -v u,utop -v v,vtop -O $NEWF
end



On Fri, 21 Jan 2005, Rolando S. Balotro wrote:

> Hello All
>
> I have tons of *.nc files to process.
> I need to open them individually and pick a data from a
> selected data point.
>
> Is there a way to automate this?
> For instance open ferret, load the data, extract the data,
> close the data, load another data set, extract and so on.
>
> thanks so many in advance
> roland
>
>
>
> > Dear all,
> >
> > How to draw a thick line thicker than "thick=3" in a "plot/vs..." command?
> > Just like "dark" in "contour" command.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Jian
> >
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> Rolando S. Balotro
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