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ECF_FILES Is where ECF will look for the '.ecf' scripts if they are not at their default location. ECF_OUT Is where the job output files will go.</pre> </div> <div class="line-block"> <div class="line">If two tasks use the same <a class="reference internal" href="/wiki/display/ECFLOW/Glossary#term-ecf-script"><em class="xref std std-term">ecf script</em></a>, and are simply using different values of the same <a class="reference internal" href="/wiki/display/ECFLOW/Glossary#term-variable"><em class="xref std std-term">variable</em></a>‘s,</div> <div class="line">you do not want to maintain several copies of the same file.</div> <div class="line">You can use the same script in multiple places within your <a class="reference internal" href="/wiki/display/ECFLOW/Glossary#term-suite"><em class="xref std std-term">suite</em></a> and using the same name</div> <div class="line">by keeping the script into a common directory and pointing to this location using the <a class="reference internal" href="/wiki/display/ECFLOW/Glossary#term-variable"><em class="xref std std-term">variable</em></a> ECF_FILES.</div> <div class="line">Many users use just one directory for their scripts and point to this directory with ECF_FILES.</div> </div> <p>If the tasks have different names, you can use the unix command <strong class="command">ln -s</strong> to create several names for the same file.</p> <p>What to do:</p> <ol class="arabic simple"> <li>Try to imagine how we could use ECF_FILES and ln to reduce the number of scripts in our example suite</li> </ol> </div> |