20050223: Level II Archived Data

Robert,

Sure, a simple csh script could be:

#!/bin/csh
# assuming 4 letter station IDs beginning with "K" just to
# not randomly grab files in a directory....but if nothing
# else exists in the directory, then just `ls` would work.

set FILES=`ls K*`

foreach FILE ($FILES)
   echo "renaming $FILE"
   set SITE=`echo $FILE | cut -c1-4`
   set DATTIM=`echo $FILE | cut -c5-17`
   set NEWNAME=${SITE}_${DATTIM}
   mv $FILE $NEWNAME
end


Save the above to a file, and make it executable with 
"chmod a+x radarrename.csh"

Then run it in your data directory.

Steve Chiswell
Unidata User SUpport




On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 00:22, Robert Dewey wrote:
> Hello,
>  
> I downloaded NCDC Archived Level II data, and am having trouble
> displaying it in gpnexr2. The problem is that NCDC uses a naming
> conention like this: %SITE%YYYYMMDD_HHNNSS.
>  
> Using the Unix command "rename", I can get the following convention:
> %SITE%_YYYYMMDD_HHNNSS. The problem is that NCDC uses seconds at the
> end of the filename. I tried adding a wildcard to the datatype.tbl
> file: %SITE%_YYYYMMDD_HHNN*, but upon trying to view the data, gpnexr2
> tells me it can't find the station ID. Removing the last two "second"
> variables from the filenames allows them to be displayed. I have close
> to 150 files that need to be converted, and it would be a real pain to
> do it by hand (I actually did most of it by hand, but then the "scour"
> script came through and removed the files, *DOH*).
>  
> So, is there an eaiser way around this file naming problem?
>  
>  
> Thanks,
> Robert Dewey