Download a weather dataset from the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC, http://www .ncdc.noaa.gov/). Prepare it for examples of "Hadoop: The Definitive Guide" book by Tom White. http://www.amazon.com/Hadoop-Definitive-Guide-Tom-White/dp/1449311520 Usage: ./ncdc.sh 1901 1930 # download wheather datasets for period from 1901 to 1930.

ncdc.sh

#!/usr/bin/env bash

# global parameters
g_tmp_folder="ncdc_tmp";
g_output_folder="ncdc_data";

g_remote_host="ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov";
g_remote_path="pub/data/noaa";


# $1: folder_path
function create_folder {
    if [ -d "$1" ]; then
        rm -rf "$1";
    fi
    mkdir "$1"
}

# $1: year to download
function download_data {
    local source_url="ftp://$g_remote_host/$g_remote_path/$1"
    wget -r -c -q --no-parent -P "$g_tmp_folder" "$source_url";
}

# $1: year to process
function process_data {
    local year="$1"
    local local_path="$g_tmp_folder/$g_remote_host/$g_remote_path/$year"
    local tmp_output_file="$g_tmp_folder/$year"
    for file in $local_path/*; do
        gunzip -c $file >> "$tmp_output_file"
    done
    zipped_file="$g_output_folder/$year.gz"
    gzip -c "$tmp_output_file" >> "$zipped_file"
    echo "created file: $zipped_file"

    rm -rf "$local_path"
    rm "$tmp_output_file"
}

# $1 - start year
# $2 - finish year
function main {
    local start_year=1901
    local finish_year=1920

    if [ -n "$1" ]; then
        start_year=$1
    fi

    if [ -n "$2" ]; then
        finish_year=$2
    fi

    create_folder $g_tmp_folder
    create_folder $g_output_folder

    for year in `seq $start_year $finish_year`; do
        download_data $year
        process_data $year
    done

    rm -rf "$g_tmp_folder"
}

main $1 $2

Thank you

Thanks for the valuable script and valuable edit by crush-157 😄

thank you so much

Changed again to:
ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/noaa/

Thanks

cool great for this work

Thank you very much! :)

Thanks Alexander. This is great. 👍

Thanks. Cool.

That's really helpful! Thank you guys!

thanks for your comments and special thanks to @crush-157 for the fix.

Thanks a lot
worked perfectly

Thanks, It still works

I am running on mac and I get
gzip: ncdc_tmp/ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/noaa/1921/*.gz: No such file or directory
created file: ncdc_data/1921.gz

The above was due to non connectivity to internet. My bad.

Thanks， it works

Great script, works beautifully.The ftp server location has also been updated in the script, so nothing needs to be edited, the script works as it is.

Works excellant without a change, Thanks.

Awesome! Thanks