Re: System Command Not Executing

Thanks. Likely the results depend on the memory of the computer you are using.
On mine, it doesn't work.

My script is able to create these large arrays just fine but never executes the system
commands.

On 09/03/12, donna Cote <d-cote@tamu.edu> wrote:
> Michael, I do not see the same results you seems to be getting. Hope you
>
> [dcote ~]$ ncl michael-test.ncl
> Copyright (C) 1995-2011 - All Rights Reserved
> University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
> NCAR Command Language Version 6.0.0
> The use of this software is governed by a License Agreement.
> See http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/ for more details.
> Mon Sep 3 21:03:46 CDT 2012
> Mon Sep 3 21:04:50 CDT 2012
> [dcote ~]$
>
> This is what I see after adding these two lines:
> print("showing system date before creating snowd and swe arrays")
> and
> print("showing system date after creating snowd and swe arrays")
>
> [dcote ~]$ ncl michael-test.ncl
> Copyright (C) 1995-2011 - All Rights Reserved
> University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
> NCAR Command Language Version 6.0.0
> The use of this software is governed by a License Agreement.
> See http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/ for more details.
> (0) showing system date before creating snowd and swe arrays
> Mon Sep 3 21:08:30 CDT 2012
> (0) showing system date after creating snowd and swe arrays
> Mon Sep 3 21:08:43 CDT 2012
> [dcote ~]$
>
> On 9/3/12 4:20 PM, ncl-talk-request@ucar.edu wrote:
> > Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2012 14:27:47 -0500
> > From: Michael Notaro<mnotaro@wisc.edu>
> > Subject: System Command Not Executing
> > To:"ncl-talk@ucar.edu USERS" <ncl-talk@ucar.edu>
> > Message-ID:<3795B7DD-89F8-49D1-A935-595C5FABDFA6@wisc.edu>
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> >
> > When I run the script below, the system command, "date",
> > is only executed the first time and not the 2nd time.
> >
> > It seems when I create large arrays, NCL skips over any
> > system commands. Any suggestions how to resolve this issue?
> >
> > Michael
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > 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/csm/shea_util.ncl"
> > begin
> >
> > nyr=20
> >
> > maxt=new((/365*nyr+5,302,121/),float)
> > mint=new((/365*nyr+5,302,121/),float)
> > pcp=new((/365*nyr+5,302,121/),float)
> >
> > system("date")
> >
> > snowd=new((/365*nyr+5,302,121/),float)
> > swe=new((/365*nyr+5,302,121/),float)
> >
> > system("date")
> >
> > end
> >
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