eWaterCycle/era5cli

search function for variables

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Calling all variables with e.g. era5cli info 2Dvars yields a long list.
You can use a search function in bash to narrow down the selection, like era5cli info 2Dvars | grep "temperature", but I wonder how many users know this? Is this expected knowledge?

If not, should we recommend this in the documentation?

Or implement a variable search in era5cli itself?

I would add a note to the documentation, good idea! Implementing a search function implies adding yet more command line options, which I think we should avoid