wgrib2: -if, -not_if
Introduction
The -if option returns true or false. If true, then
all the options up to and and including the next "output" option is executed.
Otherwise those options are igored. The -not_if
option does the opposite of -if.
Note, the effects of nesting of -if
and -not_if are not defined. Future
versions of wgrib2 may allow nesting.
Note, the "if" flag is reset after processing the record.
The -if option can be used to process
the file once and create several output files. For example,
old: wgrib2 -match_inv gribfile >inv
egrep ":(UGRD|VGRD):" inv | wgrib2 -i gribfile -grib winds.grb
grep ":TMP:" inv | wgrib2 -i gribfile -grib tmp.grb
In the above example, the UGRD/VGRD fields are written into winds.grb and
the TMP is written into the tmp.grb file. The above 3 lines can be
rewritten as
new:
wgrib2 gribfile -if ":(UGRD|VGRD):" -grib winds.grb -if ":TMP:" -grib tmp.grb
In the above example, the UGRD/VGRD fields are written into winds.grb and the TMP is written
into the tmp.grb file. Note that you can use any number of
-if options and they use the same output file.
wgrib2 gribfile -if ":(UGRD|VGRD):" -grib save.grb -if ":TMP:" -grib save.grb
The maximum number of -if options on a command
line is limited by (1) system limit of open files
(2) maximum length of a command line,
(3) maximum number of regular expressions allowed MAX_MATCH (wgrib.h),
and (4) maximum number of parsed arguments N_ARGLIST (wgrib.h).
The -if option can be to selectively
modify grib fields. See -fi.
Usage
-if X
X is a regular expression
Future Changes
The format of the "match inventory" has evolved and will continue to evolve.
The rule for future changes is that new items in the "match inventory" will be added
as the second last item. Consequently the last item in the inventory will always
be ":vt=YYYYMMDDHH:". In order to future proof your
-match, and -not selections, you
must not include any item before the ":vt=YYYYMMDD:" field.
-match ":vt=2011111500:" good
-not ":vt=2011111500:$" good (dollar sign matches the end of the line)
-not ":n=10:vt=2011111500:" bad (item before :vt=)
-match ":RH:975 mb:anl::vt=2010050806:" bad (item before :vt=)
Some recent changes (as of Nov 2011) to the match inventory include:
- adding the "extended name of the variable", ex. TMP.prob_<273
- adding the inventory number, ex. n=10
- adding ensemble/chemical/probability information (-misc)
See also: -not,
-end,
-match,
-i,
-if.
-fi.
-set_regex.
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