<div dir="ltr">Hi:<div><br></div><div>I can use wget in a system's call to download data. Thank you for taking a look.</div><div><br></div><div>





<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:20px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">system ("wget <a href="http://ftp.ncep.noaa.gov/data/nccf/com/gfs/prod/gfs.201808">http://ftp.ncep.noaa.gov/data/nccf/com/gfs/prod/gfs.201808</a></span><span class="gmail-s2" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures;background-color:rgb(230,230,0)">2200</span><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">/gfs.t00z.pgrb2.0p25.f240")</span></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:20px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><br></span></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:20px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">However, if I want to use curl, I am not sure where and how to place the quotation marks.</span></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:20px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><br></span></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:20px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">This works outside of ncl.</span></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:20px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><br></span></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:20px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">





</span></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:20px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">curl -s "<a href="http://nomads.ncep.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/filter_gfs_0p25.pl?file=gfs.t00z.pgrb2.0p25.f240&all_lev=on&all_var=on&subregion=&leftlon=15&rightlon=50&toplat=50&bottomlat=15&dir=%2Fgfs.2018082200">http://nomads.ncep.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/filter_gfs_0p25.pl?file=gfs.t00z.pgrb2.0p25.f240&all_lev=on&all_var=on&subregion=&leftlon=15&rightlon=50&toplat=50&bottomlat=15&dir=%2Fgfs.2018082200</a>"<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">  </span>-o junk</span></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:20px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><br></span></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:20px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">This does not:</span></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:20px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><br></span></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:20px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">





</span></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:20px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">system ( "curl -s <a href="http://nomads.ncep.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/filter_gfs_0p25.pl?file=gfs.t00z.pgrb2.0p25.f240&all_lev=on&all_var=on&subregion=&leftlon=15&rightlon=50&toplat=50&bottomlat=15&dir=%2Fgfs.201808">http://nomads.ncep.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/filter_gfs_0p25.pl?file=gfs.t00z.pgrb2.0p25.f240&all_lev=on&all_var=on&subregion=&leftlon=15&rightlon=50&toplat=50&bottomlat=15&dir=%2Fgfs.201808</a></span><span class="gmail-s2" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures;background-color:rgb(230,230,0)">2200</span><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"> -o junk")</span></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:20px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><br></span></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:20px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><br></span></p><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">Barry H. Lynn, Ph.D<div><div>Senior Associate Scientist, Lecturer,</div><div><div><span style="color:rgb(136,136,136)">The Institute of the Earth Science, </span><br style="color:rgb(136,136,136)"><span style="color:rgb(136,136,136)">The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, </span><br style="color:rgb(136,136,136)"><span style="color:rgb(136,136,136)">Givat Ram, Jerusalem 91904, Israel </span><br style="color:rgb(136,136,136)"></div><span style="color:rgb(136,136,136)">Tel: 972 547 231 170</span><br style="color:rgb(136,136,136)"><span style="color:rgb(136,136,136)">Fax: (972)-25662581</span></div></div><div><span style="color:rgb(136,136,136)"><br></span></div><div>C.E.O, Weather It Is, LTD<br>Weather and Climate Focus<br><a href="http://weather-it-is.com" target="_blank">http://weather-it-is.com</a><br>Jerusalem, Israel<br>Local: 02 930 9525<br>Cell: 054 7 231 170<br>Int-IS: x972 2 930 9525<br><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>