[Bdew8556]

Hi fellow Foamers.

This one's a real head scratcher.

So I wrote a batch script in sublime text editor with settings:

view > syntax > batch
view > line endings > Unix

The script is meant to change the volumetric flow rate of a base project that it's copied. See script:



rem #!/bin/bash
@echo off
for /l %%x in (5, 5, 15) do (
echo Starting simulation %%x


cp -rf att_test att_test_%%x

powershell -Command "(gc att_test_%%x/0/U) -replace 'volumetricFlowRate 25;', 'volumetricFlowRate %%x;' | Out-File att_test_%%x/0/U"


cd att_test_%%x

echo pwd

simpleFoam


cd ..

)
echo All done




It copies the base project, changes the volumetric flow rate value and executes simpleFoam.

However it comes back with this error:



Reading field U

--> FOAM Warning :
From function bool Foam::IOobject::readHeader(Foam::Istream&)
in file db/IOobject/IOobjectReadHeader.C at line 88
Reading "C:/OpenFOAM/18.10/AUBD501827-dev/run/att_test_5/0/U" at line 1
First token could not be read or is not the keyword 'FoamFile'

Check header is of the form:

/*--------------------------------*- C++ -*----------------------------------*\
| ========= | |
| \\ / F ield | OpenFOAM: The Open Source CFD Toolbox |
| \\ / O peration | Version: dev |
| \\ / A nd | Web: www.OpenFOAM.org |
| \\/ M anipulation | |
|*---------------------------------------------------------------------------*|
|* OpenFOAM for Windows 18.10 (v1) *|
|* Built by CFD Support, www.cfdsupport.com (based on Symscape). *|
\*---------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
FoamFile
{
version 2.0;
format ascii;
class dictionary;
location "0";
object U;
}
// * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * //



--> FOAM FATAL IO ERROR:
problem while reading header for object U

file: C:/OpenFOAM/18.10/AUBD501827-dev/run/att_test_5/0/U at line 1.

From function virtual Foam::autoPtr<Foam::ISstream> Foam::fileOperations::uncollatedFileOperation::rea dStream(Foam::regIOobject&, const Foam::fileName&, const Foam::word&, bool) const
in file global/fileOperations/uncollatedFileOperation/uncollatedFileOperation.C at line 540.

FOAM exiting



So I copied the suggested header format into one of the copied projects and tried to run it by itself. Same error.
I noticed that the suggested header file is different from header files I've used on other projects, so I tried that header file, again no luck.
I've also tried closing the OpenFoam shell and re loading it, no luck.

Any thoughts????

[David*]

Make sure the encoding of the faulty file "att_test_5/0/U" is UTF-8 and not UTF-8-BOM [1]. Notepad++ displays encoding in the bottom right corner. This change solved for me the same problem with another dict in OpenFOAM v2012.

Maybe too late for you, but hopefully useful for future readers!

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_order_mark