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From: Brian Bennion (brian_at_youkai.llnl.gov)
Date: Thu Mar 11 2004 - 10:24:31 CST
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I have had great success running vmd as an analysis shell script
The shell command 'wait' would be useful in your case.
ie
!#/bin/csh
{
shell command
}
wait
vmd -dispdev text -e anal.script >& anal.log
wait
{
shell commands
}
wait
echo "All done!"
On Thu, 11 Mar 2004, 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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