Sometimes, you may need some works for combining the ORCHIDEE results from the specific output frequency to a single file for the post analysis. Here, I made a simple bash script for your reference and you can combine the several files to a single file by running the following bash script. The commands, ncract, find, sort and export, will be used. See the following script for the detail. {{{ #!/bin/bash # search file names and rebuild # set up working years year=(1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000) # set the experiment name exp="BCLb" # set the file path for searching files in_dir_path="/ccc/store/cont003/dsm/p529luy/IGCM_OUT/LMDZOR/PROD/amip/"${exp}"/ATM/Output/DA" #echo $in_dir_path # move the path to search the files cd $in_dir_path # start the loop for searching the files... for index in {0..19} do echo "Search files on year: ${year[$index]}" # use the "find" and "sort" command to find the files # and sort by the numeric number appears in the filenames inputfilename=( $(find -name "${exp}_${year[$index]}*" | sort -n) ) echo "PROCESSING input files: "${inputfilename[@]} # make a outout file name based on the working "exp" and "year" export outputfilename="${exp}_${year[$index]}.nc" # use "ncrcat" command to re-create(combine) the nc file based on the searched inputfilename ncrcat ${inputfilename[@]} /ccc/store/cont003/dsm/cheny/Daily/${exp}/$outputfilename echo "PLEASE CHECK output file: "$outputfilename done echo "FINISHED THE COMBINE files job.. (AH-JA...)"$outputfilename }}} The above script combines output files (daily temp step monthly output) from 1981-2000. You can change the path or year for your necessary.