[ncl-talk] ncl systemfunc

[Rick Brownrigg]

Hi Matthias,

That is very odd -- it works for me, both at bash command line and using
systemfunc() from within NCL.  Can you get systemfunc to return files from
a directory without using "{}" notation, .i.e, "ls *" for example? Or
simply "ls foo" where the file foo is known to exist in the current
directory?

Rick

On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 10:15 AM, Matthias Demuzere <
matthias.demuzere at ugent.be> wrote:

> 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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