nco cut daily netcdf file to 10 minute files - netcdf

I have a daily netcdf file (20060101) and the time dimension has 144 steps, so 10 minutes time steps within the file. Now I want to create one netcdf file for each 10 min time step with nco. So at the end it should create 144 files.
I already found similar questions where they use
ncks -d time,min,max,stride infile.nc outfile.nc
But I don't know how to write a code creating these 144 files.
Can someone help me with this?
Thanks for your help!

Found Solution:
start=1131580800 # first time step in seconds
for f in *_test.nc; do #$files
echo 'Processing' $f
for i in {0..17}; do
time=$(expr $start + 600 \* $i) # calculates the next time step --> 600s correspond to 10 minute steps I wanted to have
time_new=$(date -d #$time '+_%H%M') # extracting the time variable from my file and convert it to use them in the file names
outfile=$(echo $f|sed "s/_level2/$time_new/g")
ncks -d time,$i,$i $f $outfile # split my original file to 10 min steps
done
done

I haven't tested it but I think you can do it with one line in CDO:
cdo splitsel,1 input.nc output
The "1" means split the file with 1 timestep in each output file, which I think is what you were asking for.

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I am using monthly global potential evapotranspiration data from TerraClimate from 1958-2020 (available as 1 nc per year) and planning to concatenate all into single nc file.
The data has a variable pet and three dimension ppt(time,lat,lon).
I managed to combine all of the data using cod mergetime TerraClimate_*.nc and generate around 100GB of output file.
For analysis purpose in Windows machine, I need single netCDF file with order lat,lon,time. What I have done is as follows:
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for fl in *.nc; do ncpdq -a lat,lon,time $fl ../pet2/$fl; done
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ncrcat -h TerraClimate_*.nc -O TerraClimate_pet_1958_2020.nc
It's worked, but the result is not what I expected, it generate 458KB size of file, when I check the result using Panoply it provide wrong information, all have value -3276.7. See below picture.
I have check the files from step 1 and 2, and everything is correct.
I also try to concatenate only 2 files, using 1958 and 1959 data (each file 103MB), but the result still not what I expected.
ncrcat -h TerraClimate_pet_1958.nc TerraClimate_pet_1959.nc -O ../TerraClimate_pet_1958_1959.nc
Did I missed something on the code or write the wrong code? Any suggestion how to solve the problem?
UPDATE 1 (22 Oct 2021):
Here's the metadata of original data downloaded from above link.
UPDATE 2 (23 Oct 2021):
Following suggestion from Charlie, I did unpack for all the data from point 2 above using below command.
for fl in *.nc4; do ncpdq --unpack $fl ../unpack/$fl; done
Here's the example metadata from unpack process.
And the data visualised using Panoply.
Then I did test to concatenate again using 2 data from unpack process (1958 and 1959)
ncrcat -h TerraClimate_pet_1958.nc TerraClimate_pet_1959.nc -O ../TerraClimate_pet_1958_1959.nc
Unfortunately the result remain same, I got result with size 1MB. Below is the metadata
And visualised the ncrcat result using Panoply
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