[petros]

Hi all,

I hope I am not posting a question that has been previously answered.

Question
How can I use foamListTimes to get the latest time directory regardless the presence of just the 0/ folder? More specifically, if a folder contains 0/, 1000/, 2000/ time directories I want to select the 2000/ while if a folder contains only the 0/ folder then I want it to return 0/ with no problem.

Context
When I use

latestTime=$(foamListTimes -latestTime)

for a common postProcessing folder, say samples, everything works as expected as all the output is stored in different time directories.

However, when I intent to use the same piece of code for a probes folder then things are getting complicated as output for probes is written to a single time directory, and specifically the one that matches the startTime value.

Of course the alternative:

latestTime=$(foamListTimes -latestTime -withZero)

works well when there is only the 0/ folder but if there are more time directories, e.g. 0/, 1000/, 2000/ I get something like:

postProcessing/probes/0\n2000

The solution to this would be particularly useful for simulations that carry on from the latestTime and thus new time directories are created as output.
Any help will be much appreciated.

Best,
Petros

[JNSN]

latestTime=$(foamListTimes -latestTime  -withZero | tail -n 1)

should do the trick.



Best,

Jan