<html><head></head><body><div class="ydp334d40f1yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Good Day all</div><div class="ydp334d40f1yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> I am trying to run g2ctl.pl from within a shell script to generate a template control file for partial downloads of gfs data,</div><div class="ydp334d40f1yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">so if I run a the command line</div><div class="ydp334d40f1yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span>/usr/local/Grads/g2ctl.pl -verf gfs.t12z.pgrb2.0p25.f%f3.grb > test.ctl</span></div><div class="ydp334d40f1yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span>it works fine, but if I put it into the script it runs for every file that I have in the directory and does not create the template file I need, its clearly something to do with the %f3 substitution but I am not sure what.</span></div><div class="ydp334d40f1yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span> Anyone have an idea as to how to get this to work.</span></div><div class="ydp334d40f1yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span><br></span></div><div class="ydp334d40f1yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span> Thanks</span></div><div class="ydp334d40f1yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span> Jean Pierre </span> <br></div><div><br></div><div class="ydp334d40f1yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> <br></div></body></html>