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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting touch and echo Post 76037 by vino on Friday 24th of June 2005 07:04:29 AM
Old 06-24-2005
Quote:
Originally Posted by pascalbout

> /home/toto
Rather than the above, the command below (in red)

Code:
[sh-2.05b$] :>/home/toto

will create a file if it does not exist.

If it exists, it will clear the contents.

touch on the other hand will not clear the contents. But it will update the timestamp.

vino
 

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bamg2geo(1rheolef)						    rheolef-6.1 						bamg2geo(1rheolef)

NAME
bamg2geo - convert bamg mesh in geo format SYNOPSIS
bamg2geo options input[.bamg] input[.dmn] bamg2geo options input[.bamg] -Cl domlabel bamg2geo options input[.bamg] {-dom domname}* DESCRIPTION
Convert a bamg `.bamg' into `.geo' one. The output goes to standart output. The `.dmn' file specifies the domain names, since bamg mesh generator uses numbers as domain labels. EXAMPLE
bamg -g toto.bamgcad -o toto.bamg bamg2geo toto.bamg toto.dmn > toto.geo BAMG CAD FILE
This file describe the boundary of the mesh geometry. A basic example writes (See bamg documentation for more); MeshVersionFormatted 0 Dimension 2 Vertices 4 0 0 1 1 0 2 1 1 3 0 1 4 Edges 4 1 2 101 2 3 102 3 4 103 4 1 104 hVertices 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 DOMAIN NAME FILE
This auxilliary `.dmn' file defines the boundary domain names as used by Rheolef, since bamg uses numeric labels for domains. EdgeDomainNames 4 bottom right top left THE DOMAIN NAME FILE CAN ALSO SPECIFY ADDITIONAL VERTICES DOMAIN
EdgeDomainNames 4 bottom right top left VerticeDomainNames 4 left_bottom right_bottom right_top left_top Vertice domain names are usefull for some special boundary conditions. OPTIONS
-upgrade -noupgrade Default is to output a version 2 `.geo' file format. See geo(1). With the -noupgrade, a version 1 file format is assumed. -dom dom1 ... -dom domN SEE ALSO
geo(1) rheolef-6.1 rheolef-6.1 bamg2geo(1rheolef)
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