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Celia, Ok. Glad you figured this out. Steve Chiswell Unidata User Support >From: Celia Chen <address@hidden> >Organization: UCAR/Unidata >Keywords: 200105111813.f4BIDxp29698 >Chis, > >I think I have figured out how to do it now. Apparntly I have to save the raw >(Compressed) files in the same fashion for the de-compression software >to de-compress the file and save it with the proper file name. > >You don't need to call me back. (In addition to the voice mail I left you, I h > ad >also asked Anne to give you a message to call me.) > >Thanks. > >Celia > >> >> Celia, >> >> The uncommented (second) action only has 4 sets of (), so it is >> incorrect to expect \5. The one with the ([^/]*) pattern is commented out >> in your message below. >> >> Given a data file named: >> L2-BZIP2/KHTX/20010510215950/70/51 >> >> A reasonable pattern would be: >> >> NMC3 ^L2-BZIP2/(....)/([0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-1][0-9][0-3][0-9][0-2][0-9][0- > 5][0-9][0-9][0-9])/(..)/(..) >> PIPE /home/ldm/bin/nexradII_bz /scratch/ldm/level2_dc/\1/\2_\3 > _\4.dc >> >> >> Steve Chiswell >> Unidata User Support >> >> >> >> >From: Celia Chen <address@hidden> >> >Organization: UCAR/Unidata >> >Keywords: 200105111559.f4BFx5p22897 >> >> >Hi Steve, >> > >> >I have \5 in the action line because pqact is treating (....) as the second > ac >> > tion >> >for some reason. I get KHTX as \2 in my output directory structure: >> > >> >/scratch/ldm/level2_dc/KHTX/ >> > >> >And BZIP2 used to be the first action as in the following: >> > >> >NMC3 ^L2-([^/]*)/(....)/ >> >> >> >> >> >> Celia, >> >> >> >> Your uncommented action: >> >> NMC3 ^L2-BZIP2/(....)/([0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-1][0-9][0-3][0-9][0-2][0 > -9] >> > [0-5][0-9][0-9][0-9])/(..)/(..) >> >> PIPE /home/ldm/bin/nexradII_bz /scratch/ldm/level2_dc/\2 > /\3 >> > _\5.dc >> >> >> >> does not have 5 parentheses () sets, so your use of \5 is incorrect. You > are >> > not using \4 in the above action. >> >> >> >> Steve Chiswell >> >> Unidata User Support >> >> >> >> >> >> >From: Celia Chen <address@hidden> >> >> >Organization: UCAR/Unidata >> >> >Keywords: 200105102251.f4AMpCp17126 >> >> >> >> >I was using the following in my pqact.conf to capture the NEXRAD level-2 > da >> > ta >> >> > and it >> >> >apprently captures the entire volume: >> >> > >> >> >NMC3 ^L2-([^/]*)/(....)/([0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-1][0-9][0-3][0-9][0-2] > [0- >> > 9][ >> >> > 0-5][0-9][0-9][0-9]) >> >> > PIPE /home/ldm/bin/nexradII_bz /scratch/ldm/level2_dc/\2 > /\3 >> > _.d >> >> > c >> >> > >> >> >So I tried with the following to capture a beam-to-beam file but without > su >> > cce >> >> > ss: >> >> > >> >> >#NMC3 ^L2-([^/]*)/(....)/([0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-1][0-9][0-3][0-9][0-2 > ][0 >> > -9] >> >> > [0-5][0-9][0-9][0-9])/(..)/(..) >> >> > #PIPE /home/ldm/bin/nexradII_bz /scratch/ldm/level2_dc/\ > 2/\ >> > 3_\ >> >> > 4_\5.dc >> >> ># L2-BZIP2/ >> >> >NMC3 ^L2-BZIP2/(....)/([0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-1][0-9][0-3][0-9][0-2][ > 0-9 >> > ][0 >> >> > -5][0-9][0-9][0-9])/(..)/(..) >> >> > PIPE /home/ldm/bin/nexradII_bz /scratch/ldm/level2_dc/\ > 2/\ >> > 3_\ >> >> > 5.dc >> >> > >> >> > >> >> >This is what the file names look like when I did ldmadmin watch: >> >> > >> >> >May 10 22:03:16 pqutil: 5818 20010510220459.632 NMC3 70051 L2-BZ > IP2 >> > /KH >> >> > TX/20010510215950/70/51 >> >> >May 10 22:03:22 pqutil: 7781 20010510220505.399 NMC3 70052 L2-BZ > IP2 >> > /KH >> >> > TX/20010510215950/70/52 >> >> > >> >> > >> >> >I don't understand why I am not getting the 4th(\4) and/or the 5th(\5) v > alu >> > e o >> >> > n my file name >> >> >either. >> >> > >> >> >-rw-r--r-- 1 ldm root 639724 May 10 16:44 20010510224037_.d > c >> >> >-rw-r--r-- 1 ldm root 696200 May 10 16:04 20010510215950__. > dc >> >> >-rw-r--r-- 1 ldm root 13920792 May 10 15:53 20010510214939.dc >> >> > >> >> >Please help! >> >> > >> >> >Thanks in advance. >> >> > >> >> >Celia >> >> > >> >> >> >> ************************************************************************* > *** >> >> Unidata User Support UCAR Unidata Prog > ram >> >> (303)497-8644 P.O. 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