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From: Bjoern Olausson (namdlist_at_googlemail.com)
Date: Mon Jul 25 2011 - 10:05:59 CDT

On Monday 25 July 2011 15:35:51 Sara baretller wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I am trying to understand a script and am wondering if any body knows
> whatfind Pdbfiles and "*.pdb"
> means ???
>
> foreach f [find Pdbfiles/ -name "*.pdb"] {
> mol load pdb $f

Find is a common tool found on Linux/UNIX/BSD.... Systems
"man find":
http://unixhelp.ed.ac.uk/CGI/man-cgi?find

It searches in the folder "Pdbfiles" for all files ending in ".pdb"

You probably want to make yourself a bit familiar with the UNIX/Linux command
line tools:
http://steve-parker.org/sh/sh.shtml
http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596154493

Cheers,
Bjoern 

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Bjoern Olausson
Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg 
Fachbereich Biochemie/Biotechnologie
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