<div dir="ltr"><div>its better to locate your terminal to the folder in which your .nc file exists, so you can simply avoid entering the complete path as<br>&quot; ~/Documents/grads/<a href="http://nhsce_v01r01_19661004_20140602.nc/" target="_blank">nhsce_v01r01_19661004_20140602.nc&quot; </a><br></div>Are you doing in windows btw?<br><div><a href="http://nhsce_v01r01_19661004_20140602.nc/" target="_blank"></a></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature">By<br>    Krishnakumar.AP<br>   </div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Mar 5, 2016 at 12:56 AM, Ipshita Majhi <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:ipmajhi@alaska.edu" target="_blank">ipmajhi@alaska.edu</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Thank you</div><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div class="h5"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 9:53 AM, Jennifer M Adams <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:jadams21@gmu.edu" target="_blank">jadams21@gmu.edu</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">



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<div>On Mar 4, 2016, at 1:32 PM, Ipshita Majhi &lt;<a href="mailto:ipmajhi@alaska.edu" target="_blank">ipmajhi@alaska.edu</a>&gt; wrote:</div>
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<div>I am new to grads. I am trying to open a .nc file but it is not able to.Should I create a .ctl file to open it. Any guidance will be appreciated.Listed below is what i am trying to do.</div>
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<div dir="ltr">ga-&gt; sdfopen ~/Documents/grads/<a href="http://nhsce_v01r01_19661004_20140602.nc/" target="_blank">nhsce_v01r01_19661004_20140602.nc</a></div>
<div dir="ltr">Scanning self-describing file:  ~/Documents/grads/<a href="http://nhsce_v01r01_19661004_20140602.nc/" target="_blank">nhsce_v01r01_19661004_20140602.nc</a></div>
<div dir="ltr">Error: nc_open failed to open file ~/Documents/grads/<a href="http://nhsce_v01r01_19661004_20140602.nc/" target="_blank">nhsce_v01r01_19661004_20140602.nc</a></div>
<div dir="ltr">No such file or directory</div>
<div dir="ltr">gadsdf: Couldn&#39;t ingest SDF metadata.</div>
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<div>Best Regards</div>
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<br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br></div></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div>Ipshita Majhi<br></div>PhD Candidate<br></div>University of Alaska , Fairbanks<br></div>Atmospheric Science Department<br></div>(907)978-4220 <a href="mailto:ipmajhi@alaska.edu" target="_blank">ipmajhi@alaska.edu</a><br></div></div>
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