[Wien] Again "Invalid null command"

[Laurence Marks]

I don't know this specific problem, but I do know that (unfortunately)
unix shell scripts often don't obey a standard the same way that
Fortran does (C also is not always so standard).

On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 9:06 AM, Lyudmila Dobysheva <lyu at otf.pti.udm.ru> wrote:
> Dear WIEN developers,
>
>  A few times there were messages about "Invalid null command" before every
>  command in scf cycle. It looks like this:
>  Invalid null command.
>   LAPW0 END
>   LAPW1 END
>   LAPW2 END
>  Invalid null command.
>   CORE  END
>  Invalid null command.
>   CORE  END
>  Invalid null command.
>   MIXER END
>
>  I see that in my case it comes from the x script, the part:
>  set cmplx=`cut $file.struct -b -6|\
>  awk 'BEGIN{c="c"};{if ($0 == "-1 0 0") {\
>  getline; {if ($0 == " 0-1 0"){\
>  getline; {if ($0 == " 0 0-1"){c= ""}}}}}};\
>  END{print c}'`
>
>  If I change these lines into one long line (without  \<newline> ) the error
>  disappears. In my former version of shell it correctly treated this place,
>  but in a new version it gives "Invalid null command" here.
>
>  Good work with    \<newline>:
>  Linux version 2.6.14-1.1653.1aspsmp (build at amd64.asplinux.com.ua) (gcc version
>  4.0.2 20051125 (Red Hat 4.0.2-8))
>  GNU bash, version 3.00.16(1)-release-(i686-pc-linux-gnu)
>  tcsh 6.14.00 (Astron) 2005-03-25 (i386-intel-linux) options
>  wide,nls,dl,al,kan,rh,color,filec
>
>  Bad work with    \<newline>:
>  Linux version 2.6.22-14-generic (buildd at palmer) (gcc version 4.1.3 20070929
>  (prerelease) (Ubuntu 4.1.2-16ubuntu2))
>  GNU bash, version 3.2.25(1)-release (i486-pc-linux-gnu)
>  tcsh 6.14.00 (Astron) 2005-03-25 (i486-intel-linux) options
>  wide,nls,dl,al,kan,rh,nd,color,filec
>
>  Maybe this depends on a specific installation of the system, some exotic
>  variable of shell is set in a wrong way?
>
>  Best regards
>  Lyudmila Dobysheva
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Laurence Marks
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