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6 ncap2 - netCDF Arithmetic Processor, Next Generation
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9 ncap2 [-3] [-4] [-5] [-6] [-7] [-A] [--bfr sz_byt][-C][-c][-D dbg_lvl]
10 [-d dim,[ min][,[ max]]] [-F] [--fl_fmt=fmt] [-f] [--glb att_name=
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12 [--no_tmp_fl] [-O] [-o output-file] [-p path] [-R] [-r] [--ram_all] [-S
13 script-file][-s script][-t thr_nbr][-v var[,...]] input-file [ output-
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17 ncap2 supersedes and is backwards-compatible with ncap which is now
18 deprecated. Both operators arithmetically process netCDF files. The
19 primary ncap2 documentation is currently the sample script
20 <http://nco.sf.net/ncap2.in> The remainder of this manpage is identical
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23 The processing instructions are contained either in the NCO script file
24 fl.nco or in a sequence of command line arguments. The options -s (or
25 long options --spt or --script) are used for in-line scripts and -S (or
26 long options --fl_spt or --script-file) are used to provide the file‐
27 name where (usually multiple) scripting commands are pre-stored. ncap2
28 was written to perform arbitrary albebraic transformations of data and
29 archive the results as easily as possible. Missing values are treated
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39 Compute the square of variable T
40 ncap2 -s "T2=T*T" in.nc out.nc
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44 NCO manual pages written by Charlie Zender and originally formatted by
45 Brian Mays.
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53 Copyright © 1995-2018 Charlie Zender
54 This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is
55 NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
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60 The full documentation for NCO is maintained as a Texinfo manual called
61 the NCO Users Guide. Because NCO is mathematical in nature, the docu‐
62 mentation includes TeX-intensive portions not viewable on character-
63 based displays. Hence the only complete and authoritative versions of
64 the NCO Users Guide are the PDF (recommended), DVI, and Postscript ver‐
65 sions at <http://nco.sf.net/nco.pdf>, <http://nco.sf.net/nco.dvi>, and
66 <http://nco.sf.net/nco.ps>, respectively. HTML and XML versions are
67 available at <http://nco.sf.net/nco.html> and
68 <http://nco.sf.net/nco.xml>, respectively.
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78 ncap(1), ncap2(1), ncatted(1), ncbo(1), ncclimo(1), nces(1), ncecat(1),
79 ncflint(1), ncks(1), nco(1), ncpdq(1), ncra(1), ncrcat(1), ncremap(1),
80 ncrename(1), ncwa(1)
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