[miro2000]

Hello everyone, sorry if it's the wrong place for this question.

I would like to create a script that will run my case after i set the dictionaries.
This is similar to Allrun script in tutorials, and i was looking through those but i don't quite understand them.
I tried to modify allRun from one of the tutorials (motorBike) but that is way off.

I guess this maybe is more of a Linux question, but i don't know where else to ask. Thank you for your help. I'm running Ubuntu 12.04.

-miro

[fumiya]

Hi,

Please upload your script file and provide more information about the problems
you have encountered.

Fumiya

[miro2000]

Thanks for help!

The c/p of Allrun script from motorbike tutorial:

#!/bin/sh
cd ${0%/*} || exit 1 # run from this directory

# Source tutorial run functions
. $WM_PROJECT_DIR/bin/tools/RunFunctions

# copy motorbike surface from resources folder
cp $FOAM_TUTORIALS/resources/geometry/motorBike.obj.gz constant/triSurface/

runApplication surfaceFeatureExtract

runApplication blockMesh

#runApplication decomposePar
runParallel snappyHexMesh 3 -overwrite

#- For non-parallel running
#cp -r 0.org 0 > /dev/null 2>&1

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

runParallel patchSummary 6
runParallel potentialFoam 6 -noFunctionObjects -writep
runParallel $(getApplication) 6

runApplication reconstructParMesh -constant
runApplication reconstructPar -latestTime

# ----------------------------------------------------------------- end-of-file

What do first two commands do?
What do ls -d processor* | xargs..... do?

What i want to do :

source //opt/openfoam220/etc/bashrc
blockMesh
decomposePar
surfaceFeatureExtract
foamJob -parallel -screen snappyHexMesh
reconstructParMesh -latestTime -mergeTol 1E-06 -noZero

and later run calculation, but you can see what I mean.

What i have for now:

#!/bin/sh

cd ${0%/*} || exit 1 # run from this directory

runApplication source //opt/openfoam220/etc/bashrc

I run it as a shell script: sh run.sh
and the error:
run.sh: 3: cd: can't cd to run.sh

If i run it without runApplication i get something like "command now found".

Thanks again

[fumiya]

1. #!/bin/sh
   You might want to read this page:
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shebang_(Unix)
2. cd ${0%/*} || exit 1 # run from this directory
   If you execute this script with the command like
   $ sh dir1/dir2/dir3/run.sh
   ${0%/*} means dir1/dir2/dir3 and this line is to move to the directory where the script is.
   If this directory doesn't exist, the script is terminated.

Your error is related to item 2. To avoid the error, go to the case directory
and put your script there and run your script(./run.sh).

Hope this helps,
Fumiya

[miro2000]

ok, thank you for your answer.

i have removed everything but:

#!/bin/sh

blockMesh
decomposePar
surfaceFeatureExtract
foamJob -parallel -screen snappyHexMesh
reconstructParMesh -latestTime -mergeTol 1E-06 -noZero

And now it works.

i placed source in ~/.bashrc and now i don't have to enter in manually. However, I have a few more questions:

1. What exactly does bashrc do?
2. I think I will install another version of OF so this will not work.

if i add:source //opt/openfoam220/etc/bashrc to the script
without adding it (source) to ~/.bashrc then it doesn't work and I don't understand why. Isn't it the same as entering it in the terminal?

Thanks for your effort,
-Miro

PS: when i enter source in the script it gives an error that says something like: not found