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Old   April 14, 2017, 11:17
Default Fluent command line to change working directory
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Hi all,

I am running a fluent case from a journal file. The working directory is the directory where the journal file is located. I have .cas and .dat files in the upper directory, i need to load these files but I cant seem to be able to change the directory to that of the .cas and .dat files (Note: I cannot copy or move the .cas and .dat files to the working directory)

Is there a way to load the .cas and .dat files by changing the directory or perhaps by some other way (btw: presume i do not know the full path to the .cas and .dat files)

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If you want to experiment
pwd is print working directory
chdir for changing directory

Btw you don't need to chdir into a directory.
you can just do rcd "folder/blah.cas"
This load the blah.cas file that is in the folder directory which is presumably a folder in the current directory.

To load something in a parent directory you do
rcd "../blah.cas"
the .. means to look in the parent directory the same way you would use chdir ..

chdir .. takes you up one directory
chdir ../.. takes you up two

You can chain combinations of .. and folder names to navigate all over the place
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Thanks a lot Lucky Tran, it worked just fine.
I was playing around with the commands earlier but couldn't find that appropriate solution.

Now it works!
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