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From: dimka (newyorkdimka_at_gmail.com)
Date: Mon Sep 18 2006 - 13:50:55 CDT

try {residue 5}

On 9/15/06, tnels_at_sfu.ca <tnels_at_sfu.ca> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I need to call VMD in text mode using the UNIX command line as follows:
>
> $ vmd -dispdev text -e vmd_calls.txt -args "residue 5" backbone 0 1000
> out_file
>
> the problem is that VMD won't accept the double quotes in this call. I
> get the error:
>
> argv: Subscript out of range.
>
> My question is, can I pass a string containing spaces into -args as a
> single argument somehow? I have tried several things like braces and
> backslash with no success.
>
> thank you