[ari003]

Hello everyone,
It may sound very basic to some people but I'm wondering how can the solution files created by SU2 be deleted using the terminal in Ubuntu?

Like in OpenFoam the command is >> foamListTimes -rn.

So, in SU2 what can be the command? I searched but didnt find any fitting solution. Doing it manually to select the files and delete is pretty unprofessional in my knowledge. So, any kind of help will be really appreciable.

[raviramesh10]

Originally Posted by ari003

Hello everyone,
It may sound very basic to some people but I'm wondering how can the solution files created by SU2 be deleted using the terminal in Ubuntu?

Like in OpenFoam the command is >> foamListTimes -rn.

So, in SU2 what can be the command? I searched but didnt find any fitting solution. Doing it manually to select the files and delete is pretty unprofessional in my knowledge. So, any kind of help will be really appreciable.

Hi Arijit,

Were you able to delete them by using the simple rm command, and then selecting the necessary solution files?

Ex: Deleting 10000 surface flow files from the 1st to the 10000th iteration in the vtk format would look like this:

rm surface_flow_{00000..10000}.vtk

I am unfortunately unaware of any default SU2_SOL commands that do the same function. Maybe a more experienced user can help in that regard. Hope this method helps.

[TKatt]

Hi @ari003,


as @raviramesh10 said you have to just use the regular

rm <yourFile>

syntax. SU2 does not provide such functionality. For deleting a lot of files use so called wildcards e.g. the star sign *

rm solution_*.dat

for e.g. multiple time steps
Note though that SU2 of course overwrites files, so in case you re-run the same case in the same directory, you will have the correct latest files. You can e.g. check the time-stamp of your files in a directory with

 ls -l

hope that helps, Tobi

[ari003]

Thanks a lot to both of you.
It worked guys...