[PauK]

Dear foam-extend developer,
in our environment we have an issue with foamExec (we use traditinally due to FOAM FATAL ERROR in Foam::findEtcFile() : could not find mandatory file)

When we start 'mpiexec -np N foamExec <something> -parallel' the application immediately quits with exit 0 and nothing executed.

We found that this issue is rooted in forgetting the value of $* during the execution of the script. Just try to put 'echo $*' prior and below 'Check user-specific foam-extend bashrc file' (lines 101-119): you will see that prior this block all call parameters of the script are still in $*, and after this block the value of $* is empty. The 'exec' on emptiness just do nothing, and that is the behaviour we see.

The fix: add a variable to carry the value of $* through the script,
$ diff foamExec foamExec.bak
40c40
< Params=$*
---
>
129c129
< exec $Params
---
> exec $*







Have a nice day
Paul









2017.11.22 Update: first try to add quotes to the 'exec line (see below) failed and thus removed.
129c129
< exec $*
---
> exec "$*"