Re: NCL won't work when calling from script

Ok, this was very helpful. That's exactly what's going on. There's
another old version of NCL in /usr/local/ that I still have in my PATH.

Thanks for the help!
Walter

On 4/9/12 1:06 PM, Mary Haley wrote:
> Hi Walter,
>
> It looks like you might have two versions of NCL installed on your system. The actual "ncl" you are running is V5.1.1. The $NCARG_ROOT environment variable, however, seems to be pointing to a location that is associated with NCL V5.2.0 or higher.
>
> Can you type the following and send me the output:
>
> ncl -V
> which ncl
> env | grep NCARG
>
> Sometimes, in the process of typing the above three commands, you'll see right away that NCARG_ROOT is pointing to the wrong location, or, you need to update your PATH environment variable so that $NCARG_ROOT/bin is on your path before wherever the 5.1.1 version resides.
>
> --Mary
>
> On Apr 9, 2012, at 10:19 AM, Walter Hannah wrote:
>
>> I have a script that can be run from the terminal with no problems. However, when I try to run the NCL script from a bash shell script like this:
>>
>> #! /bin/bash
>>
>> ncl '~/analysis/plot.3D.ts.basic.ncl'
>>
>> I get this set of errors:
>>
>> Copyright (C) 1995-2009 - All Rights Reserved
>> University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
>> NCAR Command Language Version 5.1.1
>> The use of this software is governed by a License Agreement.
>> See http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/ for more details.
>> fatal:syntax error: line 3629 in file $NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/nclscripts/csm/gsn_code.ncl before or near documentWorkstationClass
>> cairo = create res_file documentWorkstationClass
>> -------------------------------------------------------^
>>
>> fatal:syntax error: line 3630 in file $NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/nclscripts/csm/gsn_code.ncl before or near "wkFileName
>> "wkFileName"
>> ---------------------^
>>
>> fatal:error in statement
>> fatal:syntax error: line 3631 in file $NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/nclscripts/csm/gsn_code.ncl before or near "wkFormat
>> "wkFormat"
>> -------------------^
>>
>> fatal:error in statement
>> fatal:syntax error: line 3632 in file $NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/nclscripts/csm/gsn_code.ncl before or near "wkPDFResolution
>> "wkPDFResolution"
>> --------------------------^
>>
>> fatal:error in statement
>> fatal:syntax error: line 3633 in file $NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/nclscripts/csm/gsn_code.ncl before or near "wkPaperSize
>> "wkPaperSize"
>> ----------------------^
>>
>> fatal:error in statement
>> fatal:syntax error: line 3634 in file $NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/nclscripts/csm/gsn_code.ncl before or near "wkPaperWidthF
>> "wkPaperWidthF"
>> ------------------------^
>>
>> fatal:error in statement
>> fatal:syntax error: line 3635 in file $NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/nclscripts/csm/gsn_code.ncl before or near "wkPaperHeightF
>> "wkPaperHeightF"
>> -------------------------^
>>
>> fatal:error in statement
>> fatal:syntax error: line 3636 in file $NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/nclscripts/csm/gsn_code.ncl before or near create
>> end create
>> -----------------^
>>
>> fatal:error in statement
>> fatal:Syntax Error in block, block not executed
>> fatal:error at line 3670 in file $NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/nclscripts/csm/gsn_code.ncl
>>
>> fatal:syntax error: line 3691 in file $NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/nclscripts/csm/gsn_code.ncl before or near xwdimageWorkstationClass
>> image = create res_file xwdimageWorkstationClass
>> -----------------------------------------------------^
>>
>> fatal:syntax error: line 3692 in file $NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/nclscripts/csm/gsn_code.ncl before or near "wkImageFileName
>> "wkImageFileName"
>> ------------------------^
>>
>> fatal:error in statement
>> fatal:syntax error: line 3693 in file $NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/nclscripts/csm/gsn_code.ncl before or near "wkImageFormat
>> "wkImageFormat"
>> ----------------------^
>>
>> fatal:error in statement
>> fatal:syntax error: line 3694 in file $NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/nclscripts/csm/gsn_code.ncl before or near "wkColorMap
>> "wkColorMap"
>> -------------------^
>>
>> fatal:error in statement
>> fatal:syntax error: line 3695 in file $NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/nclscripts/csm/gsn_code.ncl before or near "wkWidth
>> "wkWidth"
>> ----------------^
>>
>> fatal:error in statement
>> fatal:syntax error: line 3696 in file $NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/nclscripts/csm/gsn_code.ncl before or near "wkHeight
>> "wkHeight"
>> -----------------^
>>
>> fatal:error in statement
>> fatal:syntax error: line 3697 in file $NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/nclscripts/csm/gsn_code.ncl before or near create
>> end create
>> ---------------^
>>
>> fatal:error in statement
>> fatal:syntax error: line 3699 in file $NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/nclscripts/csm/gsn_code.ncl before or near xwdimageWorkstationClass
>> image = create res_file xwdimageWorkstationClass
>> -----------------------------------------------------^
>>
>> fatal:syntax error: line 3700 in file $NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/nclscripts/csm/gsn_code.ncl before or near "wkImageFileName
>> "wkImageFileName"
>> ------------------------^
>>
>> fatal:error in statement
>> fatal:syntax error: line 3701 in file $NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/nclscripts/csm/gsn_code.ncl before or near "wkImageFormat
>> "wkImageFormat"
>> ----------------------^
>>
>> fatal:error in statement
>> fatal:syntax error: line 3702 in file $NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/nclscripts/csm/gsn_code.ncl before or near "wkWidth
>> "wkWidth"
>> ----------------^
>>
>> fatal:error in statement
>> fatal:syntax error: line 3703 in file $NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/nclscripts/csm/gsn_code.ncl before or near "wkHeight
>> "wkHeight"
>> -----------------^
>>
>> fatal:error in statement
>> fatal:syntax error: line 3704 in file $NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/nclscripts/csm/gsn_code.ncl before or near create
>> end create
>> ---------------^
>>
>> fatal:error in statement
>> fatal:Syntax Error in block, block not executed
>> fatal:error at line 3708 in file $NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/nclscripts/csm/gsn_code.ncl
>>
>> I looked at the the lines specified in the error messages but they look very foreign to me. So why is calling NCL from a bash shell script different from calling ncl from the terminal with a bash shell?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Walter
>>
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