[ncl-talk] Running NCL script from shell script

[Bidyut Bikash Goswami]

Thank you Brian for your suggestion.

But the problem still persists even when I try
-------
cat myfile| while read mname
do
ncl myfile.ncl
done
-------

I am clueless what can go wrong here.

Regards,
Bidyut


On Fri, Apr 23, 2021 at 5:15 AM Brian Thomas <brian.thomas at washburn.edu>
wrote:

> Not certain, but I think your problem is the quotes around your variable
> name here:
> echo "$mname"
>
> Shouldn't have " " to make it echo out the contents of $mname
>
> Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2021 14:26:03 +0900
> From: Bidyut Bikash Goswami <bidyut at yonsei.ac.kr>
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> Hello All,
>
> I am trying to run my ncl script from the following shell script:
>
> #!/bash/bin
> for i in {1..2}
> do
> echo $i
> ncl myfile.ncl
> done
>
> Runs perfectly fine =>
> [bidyut at localhost]$ sh test.sh
> 1
> Copyright (C) 1995-2017 - All Rights Reserved
> University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
> NCAR Command Language Version 6.4.0
> The use of this software is governed by a License Agreement.
> See http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/ for more details.
> (0) Hello
> 2
> Copyright (C) 1995-2017 - All Rights Reserved
> University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
> NCAR Command Language Version 6.4.0
> The use of this software is governed by a License Agreement.
> See http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/ for more details.
> (0) Hello
>
> But if I try to run:
>
> #!/bash/bin
> cat myfile| while read mname
> do
> echo "$mname"
> echo "Running the NCL script"
> ncl myfile.ncl
> done
>
> I get an error=>
> [bidyut at localhost]$ sh test1.sh
> name1
> Running the NCL script
> Copyright (C) 1995-2017 - All Rights Reserved
> University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
> NCAR Command Language Version 6.4.0
> The use of this software is governed by a License Agreement.
> See http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/ for more details.
> (0) Hello
> fatal:syntax error: line -1 before or near \n
> name2
> -----^
>
> fatal:error in statement
>
>
> What am I doing wrong?
>
> FYI, Here are the associated file contents:
> [bidyut at localhost]$ cat myfile
> name1
> name2
>
> [bidyut at localhost]$ cat myfile.ncl
> load "$NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/nclscripts/csm/gsn_code.ncl"
> load "$NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/nclscripts/csm/gsn_csm.ncl"
>
> begin
>
> print("Hello")
>
> end
>
> Thanks,
> Bidyut
>
> Dr. Brian Thomas
> Professor
> Physics & Astronomy
> Washburn University
>
> Sent from my mobile device
>


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*Bidyut Bikash GoswamiResearch ProfessorIrreversible Climate Change
Research Center (IRCC)*
*​Yonsei University*
*Seoul, South Korea​*
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