[ncl-talk] Problem with ncl in cygwin

David Brown dbrown at ucar.edu
Tue Jul 28 12:33:23 MDT 2015


I believe that this is more than just a problem with Cygwin. There is
a currently open ticket (NCL-1539) with the title:
"addfile and gsn_open_wks do not work with directory paths that have
spaces in the names (even when escaped properly)"

We need to look into this further.
 -dave



On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 11:49 AM, Lara Gunn <lara.n.gunn at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Rick
>
> Thanks for that reply but yes I thought of that already and it didn't work.
> I also tried putting it in double quotes.
>
> Thanks though I am sure it will be along those lines when I eventually
> figure it out.
>
> Lara
>
> On Tuesday, July 28, 2015, Rick Brownrigg <brownrig at ucar.edu> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I don't have a cygwin box to test this, but perhaps you need to escape the
>> spaces, even though they appear between quotations (?):
>>
>> filename = "/cygdrive/u/Trading\ -\ Power/image"
>>
>> HTH...
>> Rick
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 8:29 AM, Lara Gunn <lara.n.gunn at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> I am currently running ncl 6.2.1 in cygwin and I am having an issue
>>> writing to a folder on a mapped directory to my windows system.
>>>
>>> I can write a file to one directory (NOTE THIS CODE WORKS)
>>>
>>> filename = "/cygdrive/u/Meteorology/image"
>>> wks = gsn_open_wks("png",filename)
>>>
>>> but not to this one
>>>
>>> filename = "/cygdrive/u/Trading - Power/image"
>>>
>>> I have tried a few things including writing the image to a different
>>> directory then using a shell script to move it, but I am trying to set
>>> something up that needs to be done fast so the move takes too long.
>>>
>>> Does anyone have an idea of how I create a image in a directory that has
>>> spaces in the file anme please?
>>>
>>> Thanks for your time
>>>
>>>
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