Re: [gmx-users] Is there a way to redirect utility output to the screen, rather than to a file?

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, >

[gmx-users] Is there a way to redirect utility output to the screen, rather than to a file?

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