possible command line problem

[CathySmithNOAA]

NCLers

This problem might be at our end but I was hopeful somene might have some insight on how to debug and it's short (and multiple people have tried to figure it out).

Running this on our linux server (version 6.5.0 x86_64 GNU/Linux)

ncl 'ylabel="Standardized Anomalies"' < reallyshort.ncl

where reallyshort.ncl is

begin
wks = gsn_open_wks ("png","teset")
res = True ; plot mods desired
res@tiYAxisString = ylabel ; add an axis title
end

fails when it used to work with error

fatal: can't find file "Anomalies""

Testing shows NCL didn't like the space. If it's there, it tries to open up the word after the space as a file. An underline instead of a space does works I tried reversing the quote types, backslahing the space, and different shells, and a different variable name.

It does work on a MAC same version of NCL.

Any ideas of where to look to fix? It may not be NCL that is the problem. Other NCL scripts are working.
Cathy

[CathySmithNOAA]

Problem was system wrapper script for NCL that didn't quote arguments.