change history with setattribute
Added by S BR over 4 years ago
Hi All,
I want to replace the contents of history (global attributes) with a text paragraph contains 2-3 lines, using 'setattribute'. Is it possible?
As per the user document (cdo setattribute,my_att="my contents" infile outfile), I tried the following short example
cdo setattribute,history="Department, University" infile outfile
In the outfile, I can only see 'Department' but not 'Department, University'.
I think it is due to the use of comma (,).Any solution?
Thank you.
Replies (5)
RE: change history with setattribute - Added by Karin Meier-Fleischer over 4 years ago
Hi S,
I can reproduce the problem and I would use NCO's ncatted instead
ncatted -O -a history,global,a,c,"Department, University\n" infile outfile
-Karin
RE: change history with setattribute - Added by S BR over 4 years ago
Hi Karin,
Thank you. It just appending an extra line to history.
It should freshly write the given sentence by deleting the existing contents in the 'history'.
S
RE: change history with setattribute - Added by Karin Meier-Fleischer over 4 years ago
That's why it is called 'History'.
ncatted -h -O -a history,global,o,c,"Department, University\n" test_1.nc out.nc
RE: change history with setattribute - Added by S BR over 4 years ago
Hi Karin,
I could solve this with some modification.
ncatted -O -h -a history,global,o,c,'Department, University' infile outfile
RE: change history with setattribute - Added by Uwe Schulzweida about 4 years ago
The next CDO release 1.9.9 will allow commas in attributes!