mgd77path − Get full pathname for MGD77 files
mgd77path NGDC-ids [ −D ] [ −Iignore ] [ −P[-] ] [ −V ]
mgd77path
returns the full pathname to one or more MGD77 files. The
pathname returned for a given cruise may change with time
due to reshuffling of disks/subdirectories.
NGDC-ids
Can be one or more of five
kinds of specifiers:
1) 8-character NGDC IDs, e.g., 01010083, JA010010etc., etc.
2) 2-character <agency> codes which will return all
cruises from each agency.
3) 4-character <agency><vessel> codes, which
will return all cruises from those vessels.
4) =<list>, where <list> is a table with NGDC
IDs, one per line.
5) If nothing is specified we return all cruises in the data
base.
(See mgd77info −L for agency and vessel codes).
File extensions, if missing, will automatically be appended
by searching for files in the following order: MGD77+
(".nc"), MGD77T (".m77t"), MGD77
(".mgd77"), plain table (".dat"). Use
−I to ignore one or more of these file types).
Cruise files will be looked for first in the current
directory and second in all directories listed in
$MGD77_HOME/mgd77_paths.txt [If $MGD77_HOME is
not set it will default to $GMT_SHAREDIR/mgd77].
No space between the option flag and the associated arguments.
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−D |
Instead of cruise listings, just show the directory paths currently used in the search. |
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−I |
Ignore certain data file formats from consideration. Append a|c|m|t to ignore MGD77 ASCII, MGD77+ netCDF, MGD77T ASCII or plain tab-separated ASCII table files, respectively. The option may be repeated to ignore more than one format. [Default ignores none]. |
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−P |
Display the full path to each cruise [Default]. Optionally, append - which will list just the cruise IDs instead. |
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−V |
Selects verbose mode, which will send progress reports to stderr [Default runs "silently"]. Reports the total number of cruises found. |
To obtain pathnames for cruises 01010008 and 01010007, run
mgd77path 01010008 01010007
To obtain pathnames for cruises 01010008 and 01010007, but only if there are MGD77+ version in netCDF, run
mgd77path 01010008 01010007 −Ia −It
To see the list of active directories where MGD77 files might be stored, run
mgd77path −D
GMT(1) mgd77info(1) mgd77list(1) mgd77manage(1) mgd77track(1)
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The Marine Geophysical Data Exchange Format -
"MGD77", see
http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/dat/geodas/docs/mgd77.txt