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>From: Gilbert Sebenste <address@hidden> >Organization: NIU >Keywords: 200101101820.f0AIK8o23587 McIDAS ADD web Gilbert, >Been real busy here, so I haven't gotten back to you on this. No problem. re: What I suggest is a structure that looks like: /N0R/*.bref1 /N1R/*.bref2 /home/data/wsr88d/FTG/N2R/*.bref3 /N3R/*.bref4 /NCR/*.cref /NVL/*.vil etc. The idea is for the directory structure to look like: /home/data/wsr88d/\ID/\TYPE/ where \ID represents NEXRAD station IDs and \TYPE represents NEXRAD product types. >Can you show me what the pqact.conf entry would look like? This one I am >confused about. Here is what we use on motherlode: # NEXRAD feedtype, NEXRAD ^SDUS5. .... ([0-3][0-9])([0-2][0-9])([0-6][0-9]).*/p(...)(...) FILE -close data/pub/raw/nexrad/nids_(\1:yyyy)(\1:mm)\1/\5/\4/\4_(\1:yyyy)(\1:mm)\1_\2\3 In keeping with the structure you currently have, you would probably want to use something like: # NEXRAD feedtype, NEXRAD ^SDUS5. .... ([0-3][0-9])([0-2][0-9])([0-6][0-9]).*/p(...)(...) FILE -close /data/wsr88d/\5/\4/\4_(\1:yyyy)(\1:mm)\1_\2\3 or # NEXRAD feedtype, NEXRAD ^SDUS5. .... ([0-3][0-9])([0-2][0-9])([0-6][0-9]).*/p(...)(...) FILE -close /data/nexrad/\5/\4/\4_(\1:yyyy)(\1:mm)\1_\2\3 As always for pqact.conf entries, mind the tabs! The resultant structure will end up looking like: /data/nexrad/\ID/\TYPE/TYPE_yyyymmdd_hhmm Or, more explicitly: ls /data/nexrad ABC AMX BMX CLX DOX EVX FWS GYX ICT JGX LTX MOB NQA RAX SRX VBX ABR APD BOX CRP DTX EWX GGW HDX ICX JKL LVX MPX OAX RGX TBW VNX ABX APX BRO CXX DVN EYX GJX HGX ILN JUA LWX MQT OHX RIW TFX VTX ACG ARX BUF CYS DYX FCX GLD HKI ILX LBB LZK MRX OKX RLX TLH YUX AEC ATX BYX DAX EAX FDR GRB HKM IND LCH MAF MSX OTX RTX TLX AHG BBX CAE DDC EMX FDX GRK HMO INX LIX MAX MTX PAH SFX TWX AIH BGM CBW DFX ENX FFC GRR HNX IWA LNX MBX MUX PBZ SGF TYX AKC BHX CBX DIX EOX FSD GSP HPX IWX LOT MHX MVX PDT SHV UDX AKQ BIS CCX DLH EPZ FSX GUA HTX JAN LRX MKX MXX POE SJT UEX AMA BLX CLE DMX ESX FTG GWX HWA JAX LSX MLB NKX PUX SOX VAX ls /data/nexrad/ABC N0R N0S N0V NCR NTP NVL IF you were getting all of the NEXRAD products for station ABC. The next thing that you have to worry about is scouring these data files. I suggest downloading the script 'prune_nexrad.csh' from the pub/ldm5 directory of anonymous FTP on our FTP server, ftp.unidata.ucar.edu. Read the header portion of this script to see how to configure it and then kick off the script using cron: # # prune nexrad tree # 15 * * * * util/prune_nexrad.csh >/dev/null 2>&1 Let me know if you have additional questions. Tom