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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Thu Mar 11 2004 - 09:59:51 CST

Vlad,
  You'll want to run VMD like this:
vmd -dispdev text

That will disable the GUIs but leave the command language etc.
In your scripts, be sure to use the "waitfor" option when loading
files so that VMD doesn't start analyzing your files until all
trajectory frames are loaded (for example).

This form might also be useful to you:
  vmd -dispdev text -eofexit < myscript.tcl > output.log

There's more information on command line options etc here:
  http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/current/ug/node187.html#13608

Thanks,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 02:33:52PM +0100, Vlad Cojocaru wrote:
> Dear VMD community,
> Is there a way to use VMD only as a command line interface??? What I
> am trying to do is to set a shell script for some analysis. In this
> shell script I need VMD first to do some splitting (via its Tcl
> interface) and then I use some other commands to process the files
> created by VMD.
> By default the shell takes subsequent commands without waiting for VMD
> to finish its job.
> So I would like to avoid this behaviour and subsequent commands to be
> taken only after vmd has finished its job and also I would like to get
> rid of the graphical interface. In other words I would like to use vmd
> as a normal shell command.
> Is there a way to instruct VMD to behave like this?
> Thank you very much
> vlad
>
> --
> Vlad Cojocaru
> Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry
> Department: 060
> Am Fassberg 11, 37077 Goettingen, Germany
> tel: ++49-551-201.1327
> e-mail: Vlad.Cojocaru_at_mpi-bpc.mpg.de
> home tel: ++49-551-9963204
>
> 

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