Have you tried to write to a named pipe? Like mkfifo coord.xvg then g_traj -ox coord.xvg? Then tail -F coord.xvg?
I'm not sure this is less work than just letting it write the xvg and then looking at the xvg (and deleting it later)... On 2012-09-03 08:26:56PM -0400, Andrew DeYoung wrote: > Hi, > > Sometimes, I want to take a quick look at a certain property using one of > the Gromacs utilities. For example, I might want to use: > > g_traj -f traj.trr -s topol.tpr -n index.ndx -nox -noy -b 5 -e 10 -ox > coord.xvg > > to look at the z-component of the group specified in index.ndx from t = 5 ps > to 10 ps. I can save this data in an .xvg file (coord.xvg) using the -ox > switch. > > However, what if I would rather not save the data to an .xvg file (since I > just want to take a quick look)? Does anyone know if it is possible to > redirect the output of g_traj to the screen, rather than to coord.xvg? > > Thank you so much for your time! > > Andrew DeYoung > Carnegie Mellon University > > -- > gmx-users mailing list gmx-users@gromacs.org > http://lists.gromacs.org/mailman/listinfo/gmx-users > * Please search the archive at > http://www.gromacs.org/Support/Mailing_Lists/Search before posting! > * Please don't post (un)subscribe requests to the list. Use the > www interface or send it to gmx-users-requ...@gromacs.org. > * Can't post? Read http://www.gromacs.org/Support/Mailing_Lists -- ================================================================== Peter C. Lai | University of Alabama-Birmingham Programmer/Analyst | KAUL 752A Genetics, Div. of Research | 705 South 20th Street p...@uab.edu | Birmingham AL 35294-4461 (205) 690-0808 | ================================================================== -- gmx-users mailing list gmx-users@gromacs.org http://lists.gromacs.org/mailman/listinfo/gmx-users * Please search the archive at http://www.gromacs.org/Support/Mailing_Lists/Search before posting! * Please don't post (un)subscribe requests to the list. Use the www interface or send it to gmx-users-requ...@gromacs.org. * Can't post? Read http://www.gromacs.org/Support/Mailing_Lists
