grib_repack(1)

💖 grib_repack — the girlies' guide to changing the packing scheme in a GRIB2 file 💖

okay bestie, so this is grib_repack, a General Commands Manual page (section 1, for the record 🎀), and it does exactly one thing but it does it so well: it takes your GRIB2 file and gives it a whole new packing scheme. glow-up for data. no cap.

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

grib_repack [options] grib2filein grib2fileout

grib -h

for help

like… two files in the command, in and out, and the second one is where the repacked glow lives. 💅

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so basically — repack the data in grib2filein with a different packing scheme. that's it, that's the whole vibe. data goes in one way, comes out repacked. iconic.

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🦋 OPTIONS 🦋

• -h — give help. she's helpful, she's sweet, she's telling you how this works 🫶
• -pN — desired packing type, where N is one of these absolute legends:

0 for simple packing

1 for simple matrix packing

2 for complex packing

3 for complex packing with spatial differencing

4 for no packing (ieee)

40 for JPEG2000 packing

41 for PNG packing

61 for simple log pre-processing

not me listing every single one of them because every single one matters. pick your N, bestie, the whole file depends on it 💀

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👑 AUTHORS 👑

Jeffrey Whittaker <jeffrey.s.whitaker@noaa.gov> wrote the code. 💜

Alastair McKinstry <mckinstry@debian.org> wrote this man page. 💜

give them their flowers fr fr, they ate.

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and that's the whole page, bestie!! 🎀✨ this lil cutie came to you from Debian Science, dated 2012-04-18, living its best life in the grib_repack(1) section. go repack something. slay. 💅🦋