[ncl-talk] ncl systemfunc

[Matthias Demuzere]

Dear all,

I am currently testing the CVDP 
(http://www.cesm.ucar.edu/working_groups/CVC/cvdp/) which is written in ncl.
Currently the software does not run because it can't find the proper 
datasets.

Finding the data is driven by the *systemfunc* command using curly 
brackets (multiple options).
For example, within ncl, I want to list all files that have one of the 
following extension: .nc, .hdf, .pdf.

This I do with:
myFiles = systemfunc("ls /DIRECTORY/*{.nc,.hdf,.pdf}")

If I fo this in ncl, I get an error: ls: cannot access 
'/DIRECTORY/*{.nc,.hdf,.pdf}': No such file or directory

Yet, when pasting ls /DIRECTORY/*{.nc,.hdf,.pdf} directly in my system 
(ubuntu 16.04, 64bit) terminal, I do get a list of the finals with this 
extension. So the expected result.

I have tested this in ncl-6.3.0 and 6.2.1, but I have the same problem 
in both.
Did anyone else notice this before? Any idea on how to fix this?

Thanks!

Regards,
Matthias


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