Hello all, I am trying to write a ctl file that will allow me to change the filename prefix using a command line parameter. I want to do a series of simulations that compute the reflected flux from a variety of material systems, but all using the same reference run. My plan is to write the ctl file such that all of the material parameters are (define-param var value), then write a bash script that will run through all of the different cases by calling meep from the command line and piping the data out. I need two things to accomplish this that are giving me trouble. The first is, I would like the output files for each run to go to their own directory, so I need to either change filename-prefix or pass some string that can be evaluated in (use-output-directory). As of now, I can't get a string to be passed in via the command line. I have tried the following
In the .ctl file (define-param output_dir "") (set! filename-prefix dir) On the command line meep output_dir=reference ...... This returns an Unbound Variable: reference On the command line meep output_dir="reference" This also returns an Unbound variable: reference I also tried in the .ctl (define-param output_dir (get-filename-prefix)) (set! filename-prefix dir) On the command line I repeated the above commands with the same results. Does anyone know how to do this? My second issue is I need to have each each instance of the simulation call the same reference file, and I want to store that reference file in the above mentioned reference directory. When I use the command (load-minus-flux "refl-flux" refl) can I use (load-minus-flux "/reference/refl-flux" refl) ? Right now I have a soft link pointing from the standard output directory to the reference directory, but I feel uncomfortable with this as it's still possible to overwrite the reference flux. I want to ensure that I can't overwrite it by accident. Thanks for you help, Nathan Huntoon _______________________________________________ meep-discuss mailing list meep-discuss@ab-initio.mit.edu http://ab-initio.mit.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/meep-discuss
