From 5479aaa44c3e365cdb976a87132e4d99a6ac882b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Steve Goldman <sgoldman@stsci.edu>
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2020 11:17:34 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Added code to remove output directory from previous run.

---
 metal_small/run_beast.py | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/metal_small/run_beast.py b/metal_small/run_beast.py
index 4f1727b..ba7ab3a 100755
--- a/metal_small/run_beast.py
+++ b/metal_small/run_beast.py
@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@
 
 # system imports
 import argparse
+import shutil
+from glob import glob
 
 # BEAST imports
 from beast.tools.run import (
@@ -55,6 +57,12 @@
     # read in BEAST settings
     settings = beast_settings.beast_settings("beast_settings.txt")
 
+    # remove output files from previous runs
+    output_dir_path = 'beast_'+os.getcwd().split('/')[-1]
+    if os.path.isdir(output_dir_path):
+        shutil.rmtree(output_dir_path)
+
+
     if args.physicsmodel:
 
         create_physicsmodel.create_physicsmodel(