Day: September 10, 2023

Unix C-Shell Programming Notes: Part II

/ Danilo Roccatano / 1 Comment

This is the second part of this series of notes on the advanced use of the Unix shell. The first part can be accessed by following the link. In this second part, I will show some advanced examples I wrote for my research activity.

1. CHANGE FILE NAMES SCRIPT

I wrote this script to change the default names of the files generated during a molecular dynamics simulation by the program mdrun in the early version of the GROMACS package for MD simulation. GROMACS is a widely used software package for simulating the behavior of molecules and molecular systems. Although it is now possible to define the root name of the files upon running the simulation program, this script can still be helpful. The script is written in the C Shell (csh) . 

 #! /bin/csh -ef
#
# Change the names of the default  output Files
# generated by the program GROMACS mdrun program
#
# (c) Danilo Roccatano
#######
#
#Define the radix of the files name
#
setenv RADIX  'EH_min'

if (-e md.log) then
   if (  -e $RADIX'.log')  then 
     echo Warning $RADIX'.log' exist
   else
     mv md.log            $RADIX'.log'
   endif
else
   echo The md.log file does not exist!
endif

if (-e ener.ene) then
  if (  -e 'e'$RADIX'.ene') then 
   echo Warning 'e'$RADIX'.ene' exist
  else
    mv ener.ene       'e'$RADIX'.ene'
  endif
else
  echo The energy file does not exist
endif

if (-e ctraj.xtc ) then
  if ( -e 'r'$RADIX'.xtc') then 
    echo Warning 'r'$RADIX'.xtc' exist
  else
    mv ctraj.xtc      'r'$RADIX'.xtc'
  endif
else
  echo The compressed trajectory file does not exist
endif

if (-e confout.gro) then
  if ( -e 'x'$RADIX'.gro') then 
    echo Warning 'x'$RADIX'.gro' exist
  else
    mv confout.gro    'x'$RADIX'.gro'
  endif
else
  echo The final configuration file does not exit.
  echo Probably your simulation crashed before the end 
endif
 
exit
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