In my case I only use perl to change the geometry attributions file (*.geo) and the main configurations file (*.cfg) you can do something like <a href="http://code_change_geo.pl">code_change_geo.pl</a> and invoke it like: perl <a href="http://code_change_geo.pl">code_change_geo.pl</a> $VAR1 $VAR 2 .... (the code must produce a .geo file) where VAR1 and VAR2 are the variables you want to change. if you put this in a for you can generate a X quantity of .geo files, then you can do the same for a cfg file (the main configuration file to assign the geometry you want to esp-r) like perl <a href="http://code_change_cfg.pl">code_change_cfg.pl</a> $VAR1 $VAR and in the same for you can run esp-r. I have a bash file who do almost the same (since a lot time I didn't do that kind of procedure) this is the for statement: ------ for ((i=1 ; i<=$Nnumber ; i++)) do printf "$i moving prueba$i.cfg... \n" ; ./<a href="http://change_cfg.pl">change_cfg.pl</a> prueba$i.cfg perltest$i.geo mv prueba$i.cfg ./cfg/prueba$i.cfg printf "$i analyzing the file prueba$i.cfg ... \n"; cd cfg/el archivo ./CHANGEGEO.wc prueba$i.cfg $VERSION $i ./ANALYSEGEO prueba$i.cfg.wc_res $VERSION $i cd .. done ------- you can see that ./ANALYSEGEO I take it from esp-r cookbook example (I just rename it and take out the results that interest me) Hope it helps you regards DGS <div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 6:09 AM, victor bunster <<a href="mailto:victorbunster@gmail.com">victorbunster@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">Hi All, After some tryouts, your help and lots of cookbook, the terminal is getting very rewarding. For example to generate a zone from scratch: ############## start #!/bin/csh -fb prj -mode text << key1 e MODEL a description modelname.log N N 41 -4 2010 m c a a zonedescription whatrepresents a 0,0,0 5,5,5 0 0 0 connectionsname.cnn key1 ############ end But when trying to do the same type of procedures in Perl or Python (I need to write some objects) I have a couple of basic problems, for example, how do you start the prj -mode text by a .py or a .pl? or how do you pass the keyboard keys? My idea is to write several separated files and run them from one "parent", like the TEST sample. Thanks in advance, Victor Bunster _______________________________________________ esp-r mailing list <a href="mailto:esp-r@lists.strath.ac.uk">esp-r@lists.strath.ac.uk</a> <a href="http://lists.strath.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/esp-r" target="_blank">http://lists.strath.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/esp-r</a> </blockquote></div> -- David GARCIA SANCHEZ ------------------------------------------------------------ Département Systèmes Énergétiques Environnement Ecole des Mines de Nantes 4, Rue Alfred Kastler 44300 Nantes France ------------------------------------------------------------ Email: <a href="mailto:david.garcia-sanchez@emn.fr">david.garcia-sanchez@emn.fr</a> Tel: +33 (0) 2 51 85 82 14 Mobile: +33 (0) 6 78 15 08 09 Fax: +33 (0) 2 51 85 82 99 ------------------------------------------------------------