GRIB_MERGE(1)

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💖 NAME 💖

grib_merge — manual page for grib_merge

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

🎀 NAME 🎀

grib_merge

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Merge two fields with identical parameters and different geographical area.

🌸 USAGE 🌸

grib_merge [options] file file ... output_file

💅 OPTIONS 💅

• -f — Force. Force the execution not to fail on error.
• -r — Repack data. Sometimes after setting some keys involving properties of the packing algorithm a repacking of data is needed. This repacking is performed setting this -r option.
• -p key[:{s|d|i}],key[:{s|d|i}],... — Declaration of keys to print. For each key a string (key:s), a double (key:d) or an integer (key:i) type can be requested. Default type is string.
• -P key[:{s|d|i}],key[:{s|d|i}],... — As -p adding the declared keys to the default list.
• -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 — Version.
• -W width — Minimum width of each column in output. Default is 10.
• -M — Multi-field support off. Turn off support for multiple fields in a single GRIB message.
• -g — Copy GTS header.
• -G — GRIBEX compatibility mode.
• -7 — Does not fail when the message has wrong length.
• -v — Verbose.
• -h — Display this help text and exit.

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🎀 NAME 🎀 (again, because the page says it twice)

grib_merge

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋 (encore)

Merge two fields with identical parameters and different geographical area.

🌸 USAGE 🌸 (encore)

grib_merge [options] file file ... output_file

💅 OPTIONS 💅 (encore, every single one)

• -f — Force. Force the execution not to fail on error.
• -r — Repack data. Sometimes after setting some keys involving properties of the packing algorithm a repacking of data is needed. This repacking is performed setting this -r option.
• -p key[:{s|d|i}],key[:{s|d|i}],... — Declaration of keys to print. For each key a string (key:s), a double (key:d) or an integer (key:i) type can be requested. Default type is string.
• -P key[:{s|d|i}],key[:{s|d|i}],... — As -p adding the declared keys to the default list.
• -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 — Version.
• -W width — Minimum width of each column in output. Default is 10.
• -M — Multi-field support off. Turn off support for multiple fields in a single GRIB message.
• -g — Copy GTS header.
• -G — GRIBEX compatibility mode.
• -7 — Does not fail when the message has wrong length.
• -v — Verbose.
• -h — Display this help text and exit.

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