Dear Sir, Thank you for the help. The addition of ecutrho=`echo $ecut*8 | bc -l`; solved my problem. pw.x is working smoothly now.
Regards, On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 4:54 PM, Tone Kokalj <tone.kokalj at ijs.si> wrote: > On Tue, 2014-07-15 at 15:22 +0530, siddheshwar chopra wrote: > > Dear Sir, > > > > the script is working perfectly fine now. I had to just change > > "ecutrho" to "$ecutrho". > > > > So now it becomes $ecutrho= $ecut*8 > > This seems rather awkward and it should definitely fail! > > If the variable ecutrho is not defined, the shell will expand the > "$ecutrho= $ecut*8" into "= value*8", where the "value" is the value of > $ecut variable. Check your generated input file! > > As mentioned by others, the script must be written in such a manner that > the expression $ecut*8 gets evaluated, which can be either achieved by > > ecutrho=$[$ecut*8] (for bash only) > > or > > ecutrho=`echo $ecut*8| bc -l` (for general Bourne shell) > > > Regards, > > -- > Anton Kokalj > J. Stefan Institute, Jamova 39, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia > (tel: +386-1-477-3523 // fax:+386-1-477-3822) > > Please, if possible, avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. > See: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html > > _______________________________________________ > Pw_forum mailing list > Pw_forum at pwscf.org > http://pwscf.org/mailman/listinfo/pw_forum > -- *Dr. Siddheshwar chopra,* *M.Sc., Ph.D (Physics)Assistant Professor (Physics),* *Amity University, Noida, India.* -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://pwscf.org/pipermail/pw_forum/attachments/20140717/51cfd5e9/attachment.html
