Simple python script to find gaps in a regular series of files
docopt - just put the docopt.py file in to the repository
Deliberately not 'packaged' since this is sucha simple script. Just get it and docopt, and then use it.
git clone https://github.com/samwisehawkins/findgaps.git
git clone https://github.com/docopt/docopt.git
cp docopt/docopt.py findgaps/
See find_gaps.py --help
Examples:
python find_gaps.py --chars=18,24 --verbose --date-only --fmt="%y%m%d" --freq=24 GFS_Global_0p5deg_*