[netCDF #HKX-214469]: [netcdfgroup] Bug in ncdump -v

John,

Either of the following command invocations work to show ways to handle special
characters in variable names:

  ncdump -v 'xma/rtip mon 1' obv01.nc > tmp.cdl
  ncdump -v xma/rtip\ mon\ 1 obv01.nc > tmp.cdl

Those are Unix shell syntax, so how to escape special characters to the shell 
would
depend on operating system and perhaps shell used.

What's a little non-intuitive is that some special characters that must be 
escaped in CDL,
such as ":", don't need to be escaped in the shell, but it doesn't hurt to 
escape them, so 
any of the following should work for a variable named "abc:def":

  ncdump -v abc:def
  ncdump -v abc\:def
  ncdump 'abc:def'

--Russ

Russ Rew                                         UCAR Unidata Program
address@hidden                     http://www.unidata.ucar.edu



Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: HKX-214469
Department: Support netCDF
Priority: High
Status: Closed