fatal:syntax error: line -1 before or near .

>
> Hey Everyone,
>
> I apologize for this posting being so long but I believe that I must
> inform you on what this code is actually doing before trying to
> debug. I am currently running the single column WRF model for
> ensembles. The WRF is an idealized version needing only input
> sounding and soil profiles. I have written an NCL script that
> interpolates the 90 m wind speed and writes is to a file named
> 'test.txt'. In order to do all of the ensembles I have written a
> shell script that reads the sounding time and date from another
> directory and injests it into the WRF. Then it calls the NCL script
> to write the wind speed to a file to be concatenated together at the
> end of the ensemble run. This all seems to make logical sense but
> unfortunately I keep getting an error from the NCL script. The
> error is:
>
> [jtraite2@manabe BAYESIAN]$ ./script_ensrun_MN_DY.csh
> Doing Sounding_200806011300_NN.txt
> starting wrf task 0 of 1
> starting wrf task 0 of 1
> Copyright (C) 1995-2010 - All Rights Reserved
> University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
> NCAR Command Language Version 5.2.0
> The use of this software is governed by a License Agreement.
> See http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/ for more details.
> fatal:syntax error: line -1 before or near .
> Sounding_200806011400_NN.
> -------------------------------------^
>
> fatal:error in statement
> fatal:syntax error: line 0 before or near .
> Sounding_200806011500_NN.
> -------------------------------------^
>
> fatal:error in statement
> fatal:syntax error: line 1 before or near .
> Sounding_200806011600_NN.
> -------------------------------------^
>
> fatal:error in statement
> fatal:syntax error: line 2 before or near .
> Sounding_200806011700_NN.
> -------------------------------------^
>
> fatal:error in statement
> fatal:syntax error: line 3 before or near .
> Sounding_200806011800_NN.
> -------------------------------------^
>
> fatal:error in statement
> fatal:syntax error: line 4 before or near .
> Sounding_200806011900_NN.
> -------------------------------------^
>
>
>
> My NCL script is as follows and is named Bayesian.ncl
>
> load "$NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/nclscripts/csm/gsn_code.ncl"
> load "$NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/nclscripts/csm/gsn_csm.ncl"
> load "$NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/nclscripts/csm/contributed.ncl"
> load "$NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/nclscripts/wrf/WRFUserARW.ncl"
> load "$NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/nclscripts/wrf/WRF_contributed.ncl" ;
> WRF_Times2Udunits_c
>
> begin
> fili = "wrfout" ;
> Filename
> nc = ".nc"
> f = addfile (fili+nc, "r")
> it = 1
> eta_i = ispan(1,14,1) ;
> First 14 eta levels
> z = wrf_user_getvar(f,"z",it) ;
> Model height
> zn = z(eta_i,0,0) ;
> Only first 14 levs
> u1 = f->U(it,eta_i,0,1) ; U
> wind speed first model quadrant
> u2 = f->U(it,eta_i,1,1) ; U
> wind speed second model quadrant
> v1 = f->V(it,eta_i,1,0) ; V
> wind speed first model quadrant
> v2 = f->V(it,eta_i,1,1) ; V
> wind speed second model quadrant
> u3 = (u1+u2)/2 ;
> Calculate average between U grid points
> v3 = (v1+v2)/2 ;
> Calculate average between V grid points
> spd = sqrt(u3*u3+v3*v3) ;
> Calculate wind speed
> ws90 = wrf_interp_1d(spd,zn,90) ;
> Wind speed interpolation to 90m height
> asciiwrite ("test.txt",ws90)
> end
>

There is a carriage return after the end in the NCL code.
> The shell script for running the ensembles through different times
> is as follows:
>
> #!/bin/sh
>
> # Read filenames
> #cat StudyTimes_Revised_13_22Z.txt | while read fname
> cat StudyTimes.txt | while read fname
>
> do
> echo "Doing $fname"
>
> # Extract date & time information from filename
> year=`expr substr $fname 1 4`
> mnth=`expr substr $fname 5 2`
> date=`expr substr $fname 7 2`
> strtime=`expr substr $fname 8 2`
> endtime=`expr $strtime + 1`
>
> cat >> namelist_mid << EOF
> start_year = $year,
> start_month = $mnth,
> start_day = $date,
> start_hour = $strtime,
> start_minute = 00,
> start_second = 00,
> end_year = $year,
> end_month = $mnth,
> end_day = $date,
> end_hour = $endtime,
> end_minute = 00,
> end_second = 00,
> EOF
>
> mv namelist_mid ..
> # Control run
> cd ../../../../../Analysis/Sounding_Soil/Ensemble/
> cp -f Sounding_$year$mnth$date${strtime}00_NN.txt
> input_sounding
> cp -f Soil_$year$mnth$date${strtime}00_NN.txt input_soil
> mv input* ../../../WRF/WRFV3/test/em_scm_xy/
> cd ../../../WRF/WRFV3/test/em_scm_xy/
> cat namelist_start namelist_mid namelist_end >> namelist.input
> ./ideal.exe
> ./wrf.exe
> rm rsl*
> cp wrfout* wrfout
> mv wrfout ./BAYESIAN/
> rm wrfout*
> rm wrfinp*
> rm namelist.output
> rm -fr namelist.input
> rm -fr namelist.output
> cd ./BAYESIAN/
> # Write interpolated output to ws90-01.txt
> setenv ncl
> ncl Bayesian.ncl
> cp test.txt ws90-01.txt
> rm test.txt
> # Remove namelist_mid otherwise it will keep on getting appended
> cd ..
> rm -fr namelist_mid
> cd ./BAYESIAN/
> cat ws90* >> Out$year$mnth$date${strtime}.txt
> rm -f ws90-*.txt
> done
>
> The Study_Times.txt file the shell script calls to is as follows.
>
> Sounding_200806011300_NN.txt
> Sounding_200806011400_NN.txt
> Sounding_200806011500_NN.txt
>
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