Problem finding files on the local filesystem

[ccarouge]

I'm running with these options:
mdssdiff -v -r -cr -p mxs561/LIS-WRF .

And I get this type of output:

Walking remote directory mxs561/LIS-WRF/./my_run/WRF_output/extracted_data/scripts_EH/Mean_2000
Directory my_run/WRF_output/extracted_data/scripts_EH/Mean_2000 not found locally, adding files
Walking remote directory mxs561/LIS-WRF/./my_run/WRF_output/extracted_data/scripts_EH/Mean_2001
Directory my_run/WRF_output/extracted_data/scripts_EH/Mean_2001 not found locally, adding files

These directories and their content are definitely on the local filesystem so I'm not sure what is going on. As far as I can tell, both remote and local directories are the same with the same content (same files and file sizes)

[ccarouge]

@aidan I think I know what is going on. When walking the local filesystem, I've got this message:

Walking local directory ./my_run/WRF_output/extracted_data/scripts_EH/Mean_2001_2010

and this on remote:

Directory my_run/WRF_output/extracted_data/scripts_EH/Mean_2001 not found locally

See how one starts with ./ and not the other?

[ccarouge]

Might need to do a ldirectory = os.path.relpath(dname,"./") to get the name of the local directory without the ./ Or just visited.add(dname[2:]) to remove the ./ which seems to always be there in walk() output.

[aidanheerdegen]

The problem doesn't occur if the command is formulated like so:

mdssdiff -v -r -cr -p mxs561 LIS-WRF

Either this use case should be supported (by called os.path.normpath to remove the leading ./, or it should be explicitly flagged to the user that this doesn't work, and abort the program