NCCHECKER(1)

💖 NCCHECKER(1) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the manual page for ncchecker, living in section 1 (General Commands Manual) of your friendly neighbourhood Unix man pages ✨ she's the netCDF Compliance Checker and she is THAT girl 💅

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🌸 NAME 🌸

ncchecker — netCDF Compliance Checker 🦋

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✨ SYNTAX ✨

ncchecker [-d dbg_lvl] [-i drc_in] [--tests= tst_lst] [-x] [-v var_lst]
[--version ] input-files

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🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

so basically, ncchecker goes through your files and checks them for compliance with best practices rules and recommendations from various data and metadata standards bodies 👑 these include the Climate & Forecast (CF) Metadata Conventions and the NASA Dataset Interoperability Working Group (DIWG) recommendations. no cap, it's giving rigorous.

here's the tea on how it works: it reads input-files from stdin, or the command, performs the checks you asked for in the tests option — and if you didn't ask for any, bestie, it performs all of them, she's an overachiever 💖 — and then writes the results to stdout 🌈

some standard NCO options are supported too, including:

• bumping the verbosity level with [-D dbg_lvl] 🔥
• excluding variables with [-x] 🙈
• variable subsetting with [-v var_lst] 🎀
• printing the version with [--version] ⭐

and the output? it contains counts of the location and number of failed tests, or it literally just prints "SUCCESS" for tests with no failures 🫶 iconic behaviour honestly.

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💜 AUTHOR 💜

NCO manual pages written by Charlie Zender. we love a legend 💅

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😭 REPORTING BUGS 😭

found a bug? report it to <http://sf.net/bugs/?group_id=3331> 🐛 (yes, we want to know, fr fr)

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👑 COPYRIGHT 👑

Copyright © 2023-present Charlie Zender

This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

bestie that's the legal way of saying "she's free, but if she breaks, that's on you" 💀

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

The full documentation for NCO is maintained as a Texinfo manual called the NCO Users Guide. Because NCO is mathematical in nature, the documentation includes TeX-intensive portions not viewable on character-based displays 📐 hence the only complete and authoritative versions of the NCO Users Guide are the PDF (recommended), DVI, and Postscript versions at:

• <http://nco.sf.net/nco.pdf> 💖
• <http://nco.sf.net/nco.dvi> 💖
• <http://nco.sf.net/nco.ps> 💖

HTML and XML versions are available at:

• <http://nco.sf.net/nco.html> ✨
• <http://nco.sf.net/nco.xml> ✨

If the info and NCO programs are properly installed at your site, the command

info nco

should give you access to the complete manual, except for the TeX-intensive portions 🧚

and here's the whole squad, alphabetically slaying in their own man pages:

ncap(1), ncap2(1), ncatted(1), ncbo(1), ncclimo(1), nces(1), ncecat(1), ncflint(1), ncz2psx(1), ncks(1), nco(1), ncpdq(1), ncra(1), ncrcat(1), ncremap(1), ncrename(1), ncwa(1) 💖

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🌈 HOMEPAGE 🌈

The NCO homepage at <http://nco.sf.net> contains more information. go be nosy, iykyk 👀

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and that's a wrap on NCCHECKER(1), section 1 of the General Commands Manual 🎀 stay compliant, stay iconic, and remember: she checks the files so you don't have to 💅💖✨