You can specify variables on the command line when calling master_metplus.py like this:

master_metplus.py -c config.PROCESS_LIST=EnsembleStat

However, you cannot pass in a list of items, even if the list is surrounded by quotes:

master_metplus.py -c config.PROCESS_LIST="EnsembleStat,GridStat"

This is likely due to the logic to parse the command line arguments splitting items by comma without considering if it is within quotes. There is a function in the utility code that handles this situation already.

Issue #510 is related and could be done at the same time while this logic is being touched.

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