loadnc.sh

function loadnc() #load netcdf file in python
{
    if [[ ( $# -eq 0 ) || ( $1 == "--help" ) || ( $1 == "-h" ) ]] ; then
        echo "Usage: loadnc FILENAME_PATHNAME" 
        echo "Purpose: loads path of file into ipython (creates loadvar.py in your current dir). Prints file info and available variables. 'ifile' is name of netCDF4 object." 
        echo "       " 
        echo "Requires: python netCDF4" 
        echo "       " 
        echo "Mandatory arguments: " 
        echo "FILENAME_PATHNAME: path to netCDF file" 
        echo "       " 
        echo "Examples:" 
        echo "loadnc netcdffilename.nc" 
        echo "loadnc /path/to/netcdffilename.nc" 
        echo "       " 

        return 1
    fi
  
OUTPUT="$(readlink -e ${1}|tr -d '\n')"
cat << EOF > loadvar.py
import os
from netCDF4 import Dataset
infile='${OUTPUT}'
ifile=Dataset(infile, 'r')
#varone=ifile.variables['']
print ""
print "NetCDF file loaded with bash loadnc function..."
print os.path.basename(infile)
print ""
print "File Details"
print ifile

print ""
print "Variable Names: "
print ""
print ifile.variables.keys()
print ""

print ""
print "'ifile' is name of netCDF4 object... "
print ""
EOF
ipython -i loadvar.py
}