Startup options
This page only lists a selection of the Metview startup options. To see a more complete list, type
metview -h
How to
Get logging information to the console:
metview -slog
Change the font size:
metview -fs <font size> , e.g. metview -fs 16
To run a Macro from the command line:
metview -b /path/to/macro
To run a Macro and add logging information:
metview -slog -b /path/to/macro
To quickly bring up the interactive plot window for a given data file:
metview -p /path/to/grib/bufr/or/geopoints/file
*Note: this will use the default ecCharts style for the given data*
To quickly bring up a data examiner for a given data file:
metview -e grib|bufr|geopoints|netcdf|odb /path/to/data/file, e.g. metview -e grib /path/to/data.grib
*Note: Metview 5.10 removes the need to specify the type as an argument*
To start Metview with a home directory different from $HOME/metview
metview -u /path/to/new/home
To obtain useful logging information from the MARS client without setting -slog:
set the environment variable METVIEW_MARS_LOG=1 before starting Metview