GRIB_GET_DATA(1)

💖 NAME

grib_get_data — the manual page for grib_get_data, bestie. Yes, it says its own name in the description, we love a self-aware icon 💅

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✨ DESCRIPTION

okay so first things first: this manpage genuinely repeats itself, like, the whole entire thing twice, and I'm not doing that to you 🫶. Same facts, one time, no cap.

🎀 NAME

grib_get_data

🦋 DESCRIPTION

Prints a latitude, longitude, data values list. And listen — rotated grids get unrotated first, so don't come at it about weird coordinates. Note that, for real.

🌈 USAGE

grib_get_data [options] grib_file grib_file ...

You just throw grib_file after grib_file after grib_file, and it eats all of them. Periodt. 🍓

👑 OPTIONS

• -M — Multi-field support off. Turns off the support for multiple fields living inside a single GRIB message. Sorry to those fields, they're on their own now 💀
• -m missingValue — You hand over the missing value through this option. Any string is allowed, and whatever string you picked gets printed right in the place where the missing values would be. Default behaviour? Just skip the missing values entirely. Out of sight, out of mind ✨
• -p key[:{s|d|i}],key[:{s|d|i}],... — This is your declaration of which keys to print. For each key you can request a string (key:s), a double (key:d) or an integer (key:i) type. Default type is string, if you don't specify 🎀
• -F format — C style format for the data values. Default is "%.10e".
• -L format — C style format for the latitudes/longitudes. Default is "%9.3f%9.3f".
• -w key[:{s|d|i}]{=|!=}value,key[:{s|d|i}]{=|!=}value,... — The where clause, aka the vibe check 🧚 Messages are processed only if they match all of the key/value constraints. A valid constraint is of the type key=value or key!=value. For each key you can specify a string (key:s), a double (key:d) or an integer (key:i) type, and the default type is string. In the value you can also use the forward-slash character / to specify an OR condition (that is, a logical disjunction). Note: only one -w clause is allowed, so don't get greedy 🙈
• -s key[:{s|d|i}]=value,key[:{s|d|i}]=value,... — Key/values to set. For each key you can define a string (key:s), a double (key:d) or an integer (key:i) type. By default the native type is set.
• -f — Force. Forces the execution not to fail on error. Slay, no quitting today 💪
• -G — GRIBEX compatibility mode.
• -7 — Does not fail when the message has a wrong length. Let it live its truth, I guess 😭
• -X offset — Input file offset in bytes. Processing of the input file will start from the given offset, so you can skip the intro like it's a Netflix recap.
• -V — Print version.
• -h — Display this help text and exit. The classic escape hatch 🫶

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🔥 SEE ALSO

Full documentation and examples at:

https://confluence.ecmwf.int/display/ECC/grib_get_data

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and that's the whole page, bestie — grib_get_data, October 2026, GRIB_GET_DATA(1). go print some latitudes and longitudes, you absolute main character 👑💜