Hi Christian,

The following works, although it may not be a neat solution:

pymol -d 'cmd.help("selections")'

Mind the quotes.

Hope it helps,

Tsjerk

On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 5:48 AM, Christian Seifert
<cseif...@bph.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> wrote:
> Hi.
>
> The command "help launch" tells me, that the launch parameter -d
> <string> starts the command (written in the string) after the start of
> pymol. This works well, if I just send a string of one word (e.g.
> "help"), but if I try to send more than one word (e.g. "help
> selections") pymol executes the command "help" and then tries to open a
> file named "selections".
> I tried using apostrophes in the shell, but I did not find a solution.
> Is there any possibility to start pymol with a string which contains
> whitespaces (e.g. $ pymol -d "help selections")?
>
> Regards,
> Christian.
>
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