From 2e90deddcc38d385c6c44ec3a7f8a6487b7767aa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Henry <Henry>
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2011 15:26:43 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] changeDictionary: added -dict option

---
 .../changeDictionary/changeDictionary.C       | 41 ++++++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 35 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/applications/utilities/preProcessing/changeDictionary/changeDictionary.C b/applications/utilities/preProcessing/changeDictionary/changeDictionary.C
index 9dd677a61a..6ca7be44ef 100644
--- a/applications/utilities/preProcessing/changeDictionary/changeDictionary.C
+++ b/applications/utilities/preProcessing/changeDictionary/changeDictionary.C
@@ -246,6 +246,12 @@ bool merge
 
 int main(int argc, char *argv[])
 {
+    argList::addOption
+    (
+        "dict",
+        "file",
+        "specify an alternative to system/changeDictionaryDict"
+    );
     argList::addOption
     (
         "instance",
@@ -268,6 +274,18 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
     #include "createTime.H"
     #include "createNamedMesh.H"
 
+    const word dictName("changeDictionaryDict");
+
+    fileName dictPath = dictName;
+    if (args.optionFound("dict"))
+    {
+        dictPath = args["dict"];
+        if (isDir(dictPath))
+        {
+            dictPath = dictPath / dictName;
+        }
+    }
+
     const bool literalRE = args.optionFound("literalRE");
 
     if (literalRE)
@@ -313,15 +331,26 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
     // Get the replacement rules from a dictionary
     IOdictionary dict
     (
-        IOobject
         (
-            "changeDictionaryDict",
-            runTime.system(),
-            mesh,
-            IOobject::MUST_READ_IF_MODIFIED,
-            IOobject::NO_WRITE
+            args.optionFound("dict")
+          ? IOobject
+            (
+                dictPath,
+                mesh,
+                IOobject::MUST_READ_IF_MODIFIED,
+                IOobject::NO_WRITE
+            )
+          : IOobject
+            (
+                dictName,
+                runTime.system(),
+                mesh,
+                IOobject::MUST_READ_IF_MODIFIED,
+                IOobject::NO_WRITE
+            )
         )
     );
+
     const dictionary& replaceDicts = dict.subDict("dictionaryReplacement");
     Info<< "Read dictionary " << dict.name()
         << " with replacements for dictionaries "