FOAMDICTIONARY(1)

👑 FOAMDICTIONARY — the OpenFOAM dictionary whisperer 💅

okay bestie, gather round, because foamDictionary is literally the OpenFOAM command for interrogating and manipulating dictionaries and it's part of OpenFOAM (The Open Source CFD Toolbox) 🫶. Think of it as the group chat where your dict files finally spill the tea — you can read them, poke them, diff them, and rewrite them, all from the command line. no cap. ✨

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

foamDictionary [OPTIONS] dict

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• dict — the dictionary file you're processing, aka the main character of this whole operation 💖

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🌸 OPTIONS 🌸

• -add value — add a brand new entry, boom, new lore dropped 🦋
• -case dir — specify the case directory to use, instead of the cwd (so you don't have to be standing in the right spot like a lost little meow meow)
• -decomposeParDict file — use the specified file for the decomposePar dictionary
• -diff dict — write out the differences with respect to the specified dictionary, it's giving comparison content 🔥
• -diff-etc dict — same energy as -diff, but it locates the file as per foamEtcFile
• -disableFunctionEntries — disable expansion of dictionary directives — #include, #codeStream etc. they said not today 💀
• -entry name — report/select the named entry, pick your fave 💅
• -expand — read the specified dictionary file, expand the macros etc., and write the resulting dictionary to standard output. literally the glow-up transformation ✨
• -includes — list the #include/#sinclude files to standard output
• -keywords — list keywords 👑
• -parallel — run in parallel [Parallel option] 🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️
• -precision int — set default write precision for IOstreams, numbers gotta be precise bestie
• -remove — remove the entry. gone. deleted. not me erasing it 🙈
• -set value — set an entry value or add a new entry, your choice, both slay
• -value — print the entry value
• -doc — display documentation in browser 🌈
• -help — display short help and exit, the lil snack version
• -help-full — display full help and exit, the whole meal 🍓

💜 ADVANCED OPTIONS 💜

• -debug-switch name=val — specify the value of a registered debug switch. Default is 1 if the value is omitted. (Can be used multiple times)
• -fileHandler handler — override the file handler type
• -hostRoots ((host1 dir1) .. (hostN dirN)) — per-host slave root directories for distributed running. The host specification can be a regex. [Parallel option]
• -info-switch name=val — specify the value of a registered info switch. Default is 1 if the value is omitted. (Can be used multiple times)
• -lib name — additional library or library list to load (can be used multiple times)
• -noFunctionObjects — do not execute function objects, they're on pause ✋
• -opt-switch name=val — specify the value of a registered optimisation switch (int/bool). Default is 1 if the value is omitted. (Can be used multiple times)
• -roots (dir1 .. dirN) — slave root directories for distributed running [Parallel option]
• -doc-source — display source code in browser 👩‍💻
• -help-compat — display compatibility options and exit
• -help-man — display full help (manpage format) and exit
• -help-notes — display help notes (description) and exit

🧚 COMPATIBILITY OPTIONS 🧚

bestie these are the old ones, tread lightly, they're vintage 👵

• -diffEtc (now -diff-etc) — The option was last used in 1712.

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🔍 SEE ALSO 🔍

Online documentation — https://www.openfoam.com/documentation/ — go read it, it's giving educational queen 💖

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📜 COPYRIGHT 📜

Copyright © 2018-2019 OpenCFD Ltd.

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