[Dan_Sobien]

Hey everyone,

I'm trying to run the motorBike tutorial with OpenFOAM-2.2.x, but it is not running correctly. I haven't changed anything in the directory and it gives the following error when executing the ./Allrun command:

xargs: illegal option -- i
usage: xargs [-0opt] [-E eofstr] [-I replstr [-R replacements]] [-J replstr]
             [-L number] [-n number [-x]] [-P maxprocs] [-s size]
             [utility [argument ...]]
xargs: illegal option -- i
usage: xargs [-0opt] [-E eofstr] [-I replstr [-R replacements]] [-J replstr]
             [-L number] [-n number [-x]] [-P maxprocs] [-s size]
             [utility [argument ...]]

The lines from the Allrun file that I believe are causing these are:

ls -d processor* | xargs -i  rm -rf ./{}/0 $1
ls -d processor* | xargs -i  cp -r 0.org ./{}/0 $1

I've tried changing the options for xargs in the Allrun file, since the manual for xargs says it has to be a capital "I". I've also tried changing the "i" into "IR" because the -I option also requires more input, and this gives errors trying to find the directories for the remove and copy commands.

Also looking at the mesh generation, the snappyHexMesh terminates with an error when executed alone:

--> FOAM FATAL ERROR: 
Unknown file extension 

Valid types are :

6
(
bdf
eMesh
inp
nas
obj
vtk
)


    From function edgeMesh<Face>::New(const fileName&, const word&) : constructing edgeMesh
    in file edgeMeshNew.C at line 45.

FOAM exiting

I believe there is a compliancy issue with the latest update for 2.2.x and I'm new to OpenFAOM, so I'm unsure of what the real issue is and how to solve it. Thanks for any advice or input.