Re: ncl in c-shell script; exit if ncl script fails - update

Hi All,

I need to point out some limitations and correct some typo's
to my "clever" solution.

First, this doesn't work if the script fails while it is
being parsed and there is incorrect syntax because the code
never executes. Thus, the system "touch" and "rm" commands
never execute.

Second, the leading ! on the if statement needs to be removed
and the conditional statement should contain the string
abnormal_exit, not abnormal_ext.

Those are the only errors I see at the moment...

Bob

On Thu, 8 Jun 2006, Mary Haley wrote:

>
> My apologies, this question slipped through the cracks. This is
> something you can't currently do with NCL, but it has been on our
> list of enhancements we'd like to make.
>
> Bob found a solution, which I thought was pretty clever:
>
> At the top of the ncl script: system("touch abnormal_exit")
> at the end of the ncl script: system("\rm abnormal_exit")
>
> and in the c-shell script after the ncl script runs:
>
> if !(-e abnormal_ext) then
> tell me
> exit
> endif
>
> --Mary
>
>
> On Fri, 2 Jun 2006, Bob Tomas wrote:
>
>> Hello
>>
>> I have a c-shell script that does a number of things including running an
>> ncl script. I'd like to exit the c-shell script if the ncl script doesn't
>> complete normally. I tried this:
>>
>>
>> ncl script_name.ncl || exit 1
>>
>>
>> and
>>
>> ncl script_name.ncl || exit 1
>> if($status != 0) then
>> exit 1
>> endif
>>
>> but these methods don't work. Is there some other way to simply do what
>> I want?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Bob
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Robert A. Tomas
National Center for Atmospheric Research
Climate and Global Dynamics Division - Paleoclimatology
1850 Table Mesa Drive
Boulder, CO 80305-3000
e-mail: tomas_at_ucar.edu  tel: 303-497-1342  fax:  303-497-1348