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From: Axel Kohlmeyer (akohlmey_at_gmail.com)
Date: Thu Oct 18 2012 - 15:42:14 CDT

On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 9:30 PM, Vikas Varshney <vv0210_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear VMD users
>
> I am trying to pass a command line arugment within VMD console as follows
> source test.tcl 5
>
> and reading "5" within test.tcl as
> set value [lindex $argv 0]
>
> but I am getting following error
> wrong # args: should be "source ?-encoding name? fileName" when I do "source
> test.tcl 5"
>
> when I run it out of VMD (as tclsh test.tcl 5), it works.
>
> Please let me know how to pass command like arguments within VMD Tk console.

it is in the documentation:
http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/current/ug/node207.html

you need to use:

 vmd -args source test.tcl 5

axel.

> Thanks for your help
>
> Regards,
> vikas 

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International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste. Italy.