Which version of siesta are you using.

When I do
gnubands -s 1 ...
gnubands -s 2 ...

it works as expected!
And the bands are different in up and down channel.

Den man. 7. dec. 2020 kl. 22.03 skrev veerpal kaur dhiman <
v.veerpa...@gmail.com>:

> Please find attached the .bands file
>
> Thank you
>
> On Sat, Dec 5, 2020 at 2:31 AM Sankushkrishna Maheshuni <
> sankushnov2...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello Veerpal Kaur Dhiman.
>>  Could you please send your ". bands" file so that I can have a clear
>> idea of the bandstructure you are getting.
>>
>> On Fri, Dec 4, 2020, 2:31 AM veerpal kaur dhiman <v.veerpa...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Dear Siesa users ,
>>> I have been trying to calculate the spin polarized band structure for
>>> my system. I got only two columns in band.dat file one for k and
>>> another for E. There is no column for spin.
>>>
>>> Is there something in fdf file to distinguish spin up and down parts
>>> like may be any index 1 for up and 2 for down ??
>>>
>>> Is there any special pseudopotentials which may be used spin polarized
>>> calculations ? I have used GGA-PBE pseudopotentials.
>>>
>>> Is there any difference in utility gnubands or gnubands -F or
>>> gnubands.new?? may be there is any change in my utility gnubands...Is
>>> it possible?
>>>
>>>
>>> First of all i optimized my system with
>>> "variable cell' true
>>> num of cg steps 500 and
>>> spinpolarized option false
>>>
>>> then using the relaxed coordinates and relaxed lattice parameters and
>>> with options
>>>
>>> variable cell false
>>> num of cg steps 0
>>> spinpolarized option true
>>> %block DM.InitSpin
>>>  3   +2.0
>>> %endblock DM.InitSpin
>>>
>>> .bands file is calculated
>>>  where "3" is used for denoting the atom iron  Fe in my system in fdf
>>> file.
>>>
>>> then i converted .bands file into .dat file using
>>> gnubands <    .bands| band.dat
>>>
>>> but i have got a single file for bands i am unable to separate the
>>> spin up and spin down bands how to get these? is there any mistake.
>>>
>>>
>>> I also tried this
>>> gnubands -s 1 < .bands > band_up.dat
>>> gnubands -s 2 < .bands > band_dn.dat
>>>
>>> But i got the exactly same bands for up and down.
>>>
>>> Where may be the problem ?
>>> Please help.
>>> Thank you
>>> Veerpal Kaur
>>>
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>>> SIESTA is supported by the Spanish Research Agency (AEI) and by the
>>> European H2020 MaX Centre of Excellence (http://www.max-centre.eu/)
>>>
>>
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>>
>
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