cnvgrib2to1(1)

✨ cnvgrib2to1 ✨

okay bestie, gather round, because this little cutie is called cnvgrib2to1 and it lives in section 1 of the manual (you know, the general commands section, the main character section 💅). its whole entire job is turning a GRIB2 file into a GRIB1 file. that's it. that's the gig. and it ate. 🎀

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

cnvgrib2to1 <grib2filename> <grib1filename>

two arguments, no flags, no drama. we love a minimalist. 🦋

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so like. convert a GRIB2 format file to a GRIB1 format. boom. done. that's the whole description, she's short and she's iconic for it.

and if you're sitting there like "bestie what even IS a GRIB" — ngl, totally fair question, here's the tea: GRIB is a file format defined for meteorological data defined by the WMO (World Meteorological Organisation). so it's weather data. it's the format the weather girlies use. lowkey obsessed. 🌈

so yeah, you got your data in the new-fangled GRIB2 flavour, and you need it in the classic GRIB1 flavour (maybe something downstream only speaks old-school, iykyk), and this program is your girl. you hand it a GRIB2 file, it hands you back a GRIB1 file. no cap. ⭐

👑 AUTHORS 👑

• Jeffrey Whittaker <jeffrey.s.whitaker@noaa.gov> — wrote the code. the actual code. the whole thing. king behavior fr fr. 🔥
• Alastair McKinstry</Alastair> <mckinstry@debian.org> — wrote this man page. the very words you're reading, just, y'know, in their original non-group-chat form. 🫶

no cap, that's genuinely every single thing this page says. no hidden options, no sneaky environment variables, no exit status lore. just a converter, two filenames, and two very helpful people. 💜

and that's a wrap on the python-grib era, dated 2012-04-18 — shoutout to that version and that date, they're part of the lore forever. 💖 ✨ 🎀 🦋 🌸 💅 🫶 😭 🔥 👑 🌈 ⭐ 💀 🙈 🍓 🧚 💜