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Introduction:

The wgrib2 inventory consists of many fields separated by a colon (:). For example,

    $ wgrib2 small.grb2
    1:0:d=2009060500:HGT:200 mb:180 hour fcst:ENS=+19

You can change the field separator from a colon to any string. For example,

    $ wgrib2 -colon "[--]" small.grb2
    1:0[--]d=2009060500[--]HGT[--]200 mb[--]180 hour fcst[--]ENS=+19

You may want to use the -colon option because you are going to be parsing the inventory with another program that uses a different field separator. (CSV file?).

Usage

-colon string

Example

    $ wgrib2 small.grb2 -colon ':,"' -t -colon '","' -var -lev -ftime -misc -colon '' -print '"'
    1:0:,"d=2009060500","HGT","200 mb","180 hour fcst","ENS=+19"

See also: -print,

Description: misc X replace item deliminator (:) with X

Docs derived from https://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/wesley/wgrib2/colon.html