;;; NCL script for printing dates of first and last timestep in file load "$NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/nclscripts/contrib/ut_string.ncl" ;; Pass filename in via command-line. Example: ;; ncl -x infile=\"table6/prtot_CRCM_climatology.nc\" format = "%Y-%N-%D %H:%M:%S" ;; open file fin = addfile(infile, "r") time = fin->time nt = dimsizes(time) infile = systemfunc("basename "+infile) first = ut_string(time(0), format) last = ut_string(time(nt-1), format) print(""+infile+" "+first+" "+last) exit ;; Copyright 2009-2012 Univ. Corp. for Atmos. Research ;; Author: Seth McGinnis, mcginnis@ucar.edu