[Pw_forum] Running examples in espresso-4.0

[Paul M. Grant]

I'm in the middle of a two-day run, but will try Davide's solution when it
finishes.

It turns out Ubuntu is a clone of Debian, which is supposed to be "the"
Linux distro, and they use (for some reason), a different command
interpreter, dash (I wonder what the "d" is for ;)).
Where's a good place to park the symlink so that it invokes on boot-up?

On the subject of command interpreters, I spend a lot of time writing
scripts to generate and analyze text I/O from the PWscf executables, and
bash is tedious, to say the least.  What's been the experience with
"semi-smart" interpreters, like Perl?  How I long for good old APL2, which
even has an unconditional goto!  (I actually have IBM's latest on my
machine...maybe I should try it out)

For anyone interested in superconductivity, I had an N&V in last week's
Nature on the recently discovered "iron age" superconductors...barbs are
welcome.

Paul M. Grant, PhD
Principal, W2AGZ Technologies
Visiting Scholar, Applied Physics, Stanford (2005-2008)
EPRI Science Fellow (Retired)
IBM Research Staff Member Emeritus
w2agz at pacbell.net
http://www.w2agz.com
 
 


-----Original Message-----
From: pw_forum-bounces at pwscf.org [mailto:pw_forum-bounces at pwscf.org] On
Behalf Of Davide Ceresoli
Sent: Sunday, June 22, 2008 2:18 PM
To: Axel Kohlmeyer; PWSCF Forum
Cc: Paul M. Grant
Subject: Re: [Pw_forum] Running examples in espresso-4.0

On Sun, 22 Jun 2008, Axel Kohlmeyer wrote:

> to the best of my knowledge, the syntax in check_failure.sh is
> correct and the problem is most likely a "feature" in ubuntu.
>
> are you certain that /bin/sh is actually pointing to bash?
>
> unfortunately, there is no good solution. you could make /bin/sh a symlink
to 
> /bin/bash, but that will probably break other scripts, e.g., those that 
> control your startup.
Actually, I'm running Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy and linking /bin/sh to
/bin/bash solves the problem and does not affect the startup
scripts.

HTH

Davide

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