Tool for truncating NetCDF files?

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• Subject: Tool for truncating NetCDF files?
• From: Richard Signell <rsignell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Fri, 11 Nov 1994 08:53:23 -0500 (EST)

I was storing output from a numerical model at successive time steps 
along the unlimited time dimension in my NetCDF file, and by mistake,
I let the model run too long and the NetCDF file got too large to 
fit on a CD-ROM.  

Does anyone have a tool that would effectively allow me to "clip" the
end off my netCDF file?  In other words, create a 
file with all the same variables and attributes, but just fewer
steps along the "unlimited" dimension? 

I know how I would write it myself, but it seems like this might be
a problem someone has already solved....

Thanks,
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