Re: [netcdfgroup] ncdump with just the variable's values?

• To: "Lynnes, Christopher S. (GSFC-6102)" <christopher.s.lynnes@xxxxxxxx>
• Subject: Re: [netcdfgroup] ncdump with just the variable's values?
• From: Russ Rew <russ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2011 12:43:41 -0600

Hi Chris,

> Is there a way to get ncdump to output just the values of a given variable?  
> (The -v option gives me the header info as well.)

No, but this works pretty well, if you want to print just the values of
var1 and var2 from netCDF file foo.nc:

  ncdump -v var1,var2 foo.nc | sed -e '1,/data:/d' -e '$d'

It eliminates all the header info and the last line that's just "}".
It doesn't work for netCDF-4 files that have nested groups.

--Russ

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  • [netcdfgroup] ncdump with just the variable's values?
    • From: Lynnes, Christopher S. (GSFC-6102)