[netcdfgroup] netcdfgroup Digest, Vol 32, Issue 1

[David Brown]

Hi Ben,

It sounds like ncl_filedump (a stand-alone script packaged with NCL)  
will do what you want:

$ ncl_filedump -v xxx,lat isscp.nc
  Copyright (C) 1995-2007 - All Rights Reserved
  University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
  NCAR Command Language Version 5.0.0
  The use of this software is governed by a License Agreement.
  See http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/ for more details.
Variable: f (file variable)

filename:       isscp
path:   isscp.nc
    file global attributes:
       description : ISSCP reduced grid
    dimensions:
       nodes = 6596
    variables:
       float lon ( nodes )
          units :        degrees east
          long_name :    longitude

       float lat ( nodes )
          units :        degrees north
          long_name :    latitude

       float topo ( nodes )
          units :        meters above sea level (I think)
          long_name :    topology


Variables:

${progname}: error: 'xxx' is not a variable in 'isscp.nc'.
      lat:

   -88.75      -88.75      -88.75      -86.25      -86.25      -86.25
   -86.25      -86.25      -86.25      -86.25      -86.25      -86.25
....

   -dave
  Dave Brown -- NCL development team

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> I find it annoying when ncdump stops if a variable in the -v list
> is not found on the file. It would be better if it just printed a
> warning and continued. Because of this I have to customize ncdump
> commands for different project files.  I could certainly write my
> own ncdump code w/ IDL or some other language, but it might help
> others if ncdump could be improved in this way. Does anyone know
> if such a "smart" ncdump already exists?
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