GRIB_COPY(1)

👑 NAME 👑

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🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

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🫶 NAME 🫶

grib_copy

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Copies the content of GRIB files printing values of some keys. If the name of the output_grib_file contains a key enclosed in square brackets, its value will be used. 💅

🌈 USAGE 🌈

grib_copy [options] grib_file grib_file ... output_grib_file

✨ OPTIONS ✨

• -f — Force. Force the execution not to fail on error. periodt, it just will NOT fold under pressure 💪
• -r — Repack data. Sometimes after setting some keys involving properties of the packing algorithm a repacking of data is needed, and this repacking is performed by setting this -r option. 🎁
• -p key[:{s|d|i}],key[:{s|d|i}],... — Declaration of keys to print. For each key you can request a string type (key:s), a double type (key:d) or an integer type (key:i), and the default type is string. ⭐
• -P key[:{s|d|i}],key[:{s|d|i}],... — Same as -p, except it adds the declared keys to the default list. 😌↕️
• -w key[:{s|d|i}]{=|!=}value,key[:{s|d|i}]=value,... — Where clause. Only GRIB messages matching the key/value constraints are copied to the output_grib_file. A valid constraint is of type key=value or key!=value. For each key a string (key:s), a double (key:d) or an integer (key:i) type can be defined, and the default type is string. In the value you can also use the forward-slash character / to specify an OR condition (i.e. a logical disjunction). Note: only one -w clause is allowed. 🙈
• -B 'order by' directive — Order by. The output will be ordered according to the 'order by' directive. Example: "step:i asc, centre desc" (step numeric ascending and centre descending). Default sort mode is 'asc'. 🔥
• -V — Print version. 👑
• -W width — Minimum width of each column in output. Default is 10.
• -M — Multi-field support off. Turns off support for multiple fields in a single GRIB message. bye bye multi-field 💀
• -T T | B | A — Message type. T->GTS, B->BUFR, A->Any (Experimental). The input file is interpreted according to the message type. 🌈
• -g — Copy GTS header.
• -G — GRIBEX compatibility mode.
• -7 — Does not fail when the message has wrong length. (not me being forgiving 💅)
• -X offset — Input file offset in bytes. Processing of the input file will start from the given offset.
• -v — Verbose. give me ALL the tea ✨
• -h — Display this help text and exit.

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

Full documentation and examples at: https://confluence.ecmwf.int/display/ECC/grib_copy

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