Problem opening files with grib extensions

[Henrique Barbosa]

Dear Giannakos,

To check if wgrib is in your path, just run the command or try:

@>  which wgrib

The answer should be the full path to the executable wgrib.

About the extension .grib, that's no problem at all for grib2ctl.pl...
I've download a lot of files from ECMWF and named them with
this extension and grib2ctl works perfectly.

[]'s
Henrique


On 6/6/07, Giannakos Apostolos <geom06005 at geo.aegean.gr> wrote:
> Dear list
>
> I have downloaded from ecmwf a grib file that ends with the string grib
> like retrieval.grib When i am trying to create the ctl file with the
> command:
>
>    ./grib2ctl.pl retrieval.grib >retrieve.ctl
>
> it gives me an error report like the one below
>
>    found unidentified data
>    Big problem:
>   either retrieval.grib is missing or not a grib file
>   or wgrib is not on your path
> I am sure  that wgrib is in my path and i have retrieval .grib because when
> i am using files with extensions .grb and then run the command to create
> the ctl file it doesn't give me error.
>
> For a reason doesn't recognises files with grib extension
> Does anyone knows what should i do to open the  files with the extension
> grib.
>