[ncl-talk] Problem with ncl in cygwin

[Rick Brownrigg]

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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