Exclude "ExampleConfig.txt" from ${CONFIG_FILES}

[DininduSenanayake]

Current version of Slurm script ( and the Snake rule) assigns all of the .txt files to ${CONFIG_FILES} as per CONFIG_FILES=($(ls $CONFIG_DIR/*.txt)). This is not desirable as ExampleConfig.txt file is on the same working directory which has to be excluded from the variable. Otherwise, it will create a ghost .apsimx file and NULL array task

[DininduSenanayake]

Few ways to tackle this

1. Use extended globbbing

shopt -s extglob
CONFIG_FILES=($(ls $CONFIG_DIR/!(*ExampleConfig).txt))
echo "${CONFIG_FILES[@]}"

2. Use find and grep

   CONFIG_FILES=($(find "$CONFIG_DIR" -name "*.txt" | grep -v "ExampleConfig.txt"))
   echo "${CONFIG_FILES[@]}"

3. Use a Loop

CONFIG_FILES=()
for file in "$CONFIG_DIR"/*.txt; do
    if [ "$(basename "$file")" != "ExampleConfig.txt" ]; then
        CONFIG_FILES+=("$file")
    fi
done

echo "${CONFIG_FILES[@]}"

[DininduSenanayake]

Abandon this approach in favour of moving ExampleConfig to a different dir

[DininduSenanayake]

This was addressed in https://github.com/DininduSenanayake/APSIM-eri-mahuika/pull/32

• Particularly line 16 in https://github.com/DininduSenanayake/APSIM-eri-mahuika/blob/main/4-create-apsimx-files/create_apsimx.sl