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20051103: 20051102: uppercase gpnids output filenames?

Neil,

Unix has a command "tr" where you can convert case through replacement
such as: 
% echo UPPERcase_toLowerCase | tr -s '[A-Z]' '[a-z]'
You can use that in any shell language.

Steve Chiswell
Unidata User Support

>From: "Neil R. Smith" <address@hidden>
>Organization: UCAR/Unidata
>Keywords: 200511031702.jA3H2M7s027840

>OK.
>But a convenience of scripting is using variable substitution.
>
>I call gpnids after having snagged the input radar
>data file from a dir. listing and initiated a script variable with it,
>eg., 'inputdataname'. As created by the ldm, it has uppercase letters in
>it. I'd like gpnids to output to a filename incorporating the input
>filename, so I use something like '$inputdataname' in the string for the
>gpnids 'OUTPUT' variable; eg., 'OUTPUT = f/$inputdataname.vadout'
>
>Is there a workaround you could suggest? Maybe a shell (preferably bash)
>function that would convert 'inputdataname' to all lowercase before
>initializing 'OUTPUT'?
>
>Thanks Steve,
>-Neil
>PS: why are we still suffering for VMS?
>
>On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 16:46 -0700, Unidata Support wrote:
>> Neil,
>> 
>> The output file name is processed by the GEMLIB routine
>> $GEMPAK/source/gemlib/in/inoutt.f, so the behavior is
>> common to all GEMPAK programs.
>> 
>> The problem is that you have mixed uppercase in your file name,
>> so the porocessing of the filename is converted to uppercase
>> (I'm assuming an old VMS type of convention).
>> 
>> Try specifying an output file name all in lower case.
>> 
>> Steve Chiswell
>> Unidata User Support
>> 
>> 
>> >From: "Neil R. Smith" <address@hidden>
>> >Organization: UCAR/Unidata
>> >Keywords: 200511022319.jA2NJt7s029253
>> 
>> >Steve,
>> >I've got gpnids (gempak 5.8.3a) scripted to generate VAD winds output. I
>> >find that whatever filename I set 'OUTPUT' to, the characters are
>> >converted to uppercase.
>> >
>> >eg. if during gpnids execution,
>> >
>> >OUTPUT=f / /data/vad/out.FileName
>> >
>> >then gpnids will try to write to 
>> >    /DATA/VAD/OUT.FILENAME
>> >But since these uppercase directories don't exist, the output defaults
>> >to terminal.
>> >
>> >This is a problem if I can't include full path naming with lower case
>> >directory names.
>> >
>> >Is there something I'm missing about gempak program output, or gpnids
>> >output in particular?
>> >
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