> On 18 Jul 2018, at 18:12, Federico G Lopez Armengol <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> 
> Maybe I misunderstood the point of parameter file scripting. I understood 
> they serve for automatically create several parameter files, and 
> automatically run (or submit) the corresponding simulations.

Hi,

Yes, you misunderstood :).

The documentation says

"A parameter file script is a file with a ”.rpar” extension which, when 
executed, generates a file in the same place but with a ”.par” extension. The 
resulting file should be a valid SimFactory parameter file."

So you can only generate a single parameter file from the script.  You could 
take a look at the bbh example 
(https://bitbucket.org/einsteintoolkit/einsteinexamples/raw/master/par/GW150914/GW150914.rpar)
 to see why this sort of thing is needed.  Some of what is done in the python 
header of that script cannot be done directly in the parameter file, or it 
would be incredibly tedious and error prone to do so.  

Having a higher-level mechanism for managing collections of parameter files and 
simulations would be very useful, but it does not exist at the moment.  You 
will have to implement it yourself, e.g. in a shell script.  You should 
probably use sim create-run rather than sim create-submit so that the 
simulations don't run in the background at the same time.

-- 
Ian Hinder
https://ianhinder.net

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