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Hi Fred, > I need to use NCDUMP to convert 4,400 NASA weather data sets (MERRA) from > HDF format to ASCII. > Is there a way to use NCDUMP to process a group of file names? Thanks! No, sorry, currently the ncdump command accepts only one file at a time, so you would need to invoke it multiple times in a loop inside a shell script. --Russ > Fred Mayes > Senior Technology Analyst, > Electricity, Coal, Nuclear and Renewables Office > Energy Information Administration > 1000 Independence Ave., SW EI-34 > Washington, DC 20585 > (202) 586-1508 (W) > > > Russ Rew UCAR Unidata Program address@hidden http://www.unidata.ucar.edu Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: QLR-516011 Department: Support netCDF Priority: Normal Status: Closed