[Met_help] [rt.rap.ucar.edu #96135] History for Tar Files

[John Halley Gotway via RT]

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John and company, we are in the process of cleaning up and organizing our MET files.  One thing I am planning to do is tar and compress each month's worth of mdlob_pairs and leave the tar files in the mdlob_pairs directory.  I wanted to find out if the presence of these files in the mdlob_pairs directory will slow down or cause problems for MET stat analysis running against data in these directories.  Does MET stat_analysis only look for .stat files?

Thanks
Bob


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Subject: Tar Files
From: John Halley Gotway
Time: Thu Aug 06 09:58:48 2020

Bob,

When you run stat_analysis using the "-lookin directory" option, it'll
recursively search through the specified directory looking for and
reading
files that end with ".stat".

If you use the "-lookin /path/to/a/file" option, it'll attempt to open
up
and read the file you specify regardless of the suffix.

So as long as you don't say "-lookin mdlob_pairs_July2020.tar.gz",
then it
should be just fine. Having extra files sitting in those output
directories
will only take Stat-Analysis an extra milli- (or maybe micro-) second
to
ignore.

Thanks,
John Halley Gotway

On Thu, Aug 6, 2020 at 7:28 AM robert.craig.2 at us.af.mil via RT <
met_help at ucar.edu> wrote:

>
> Thu Aug 06 07:27:51 2020: Request 96135 was acted upon.
> Transaction: Ticket created by robert.craig.2 at us.af.mil
>        Queue: met_help
>      Subject: Tar Files
>        Owner: Nobody
>   Requestors: robert.craig.2 at us.af.mil
>       Status: new
>  Ticket <URL:
https://rt.rap.ucar.edu/rt/Ticket/Display.html?id=96135 >
>
>
> John and company, we are in the process of cleaning up and
organizing our
> MET files.  One thing I am planning to do is tar and compress each
month's
> worth of mdlob_pairs and leave the tar files in the mdlob_pairs
directory.
> I wanted to find out if the presence of these files in the
mdlob_pairs
> directory will slow down or cause problems for MET stat analysis
running
> against data in these directories.  Does MET stat_analysis only look
for
> .stat files?
>
> Thanks
> Bob
>
>

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Subject: RE: [Non-DoD Source] Re: [rt.rap.ucar.edu #96135] Tar Files
From: robert.craig.2 at us.af.mil
Time: Thu Aug 06 12:30:15 2020

Thanks

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From: John Halley Gotway via RT <met_help at ucar.edu>
Sent: Thursday, August 6, 2020 10:59 AM
To: CRAIG, ROBERT J GS-12 USAF ACC 16 WS/WXN
<robert.craig.2 at us.af.mil>
Subject: [Non-DoD Source] Re: [rt.rap.ucar.edu #96135] Tar Files

Bob,

When you run stat_analysis using the "-lookin directory" option, it'll
recursively search through the specified directory looking for and
reading files that end with ".stat".

If you use the "-lookin /path/to/a/file" option, it'll attempt to open
up and read the file you specify regardless of the suffix.

So as long as you don't say "-lookin mdlob_pairs_July2020.tar.gz",
then it should be just fine. Having extra files sitting in those
output directories will only take Stat-Analysis an extra milli- (or
maybe micro-) second to ignore.

Thanks,
John Halley Gotway

On Thu, Aug 6, 2020 at 7:28 AM robert.craig.2 at us.af.mil via RT <
met_help at ucar.edu> wrote:

>
> Thu Aug 06 07:27:51 2020: Request 96135 was acted upon.
> Transaction: Ticket created by robert.craig.2 at us.af.mil
>        Queue: met_help
>      Subject: Tar Files
>        Owner: Nobody
>   Requestors: robert.craig.2 at us.af.mil
>       Status: new
>  Ticket <URL:
https://rt.rap.ucar.edu/rt/Ticket/Display.html?id=96135
> >
>
>
> John and company, we are in the process of cleaning up and
organizing
> our MET files.  One thing I am planning to do is tar and compress
each
> month's worth of mdlob_pairs and leave the tar files in the
mdlob_pairs directory.
> I wanted to find out if the presence of these files in the
mdlob_pairs
> directory will slow down or cause problems for MET stat analysis
> running against data in these directories.  Does MET stat_analysis
> only look for .stat files?
>
> Thanks
> Bob
>
>



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