[gmx-users] How to suppress the screen info & how to overwrite files?

[Justin A. Lemkul]

Hiroshi Fujisaki wrote:
> Dear gromacs users,
> 
> I am using gromacs 4.0.7 or higher and I would like to 
> ask you two simple questions. 
> 
> For a certain purpose, I use gromacs (grompp or mdrun) 
> many times, and  the same information appear on the 
> screen, which might make the computational process slow. 
> How can I suppress such information on the screen? 
> 

Use the -quiet option or redirect all screen output with &>/dev/null.

> The other question is, when using gromacs many times,
> it writes many backup files with "sharp", which would be 
> messy or make the process slow. How can I overwrite files 
> in gromacs? 
> 

Try setting the environment variable GMX_MAXBACKUP to zero.

-Justin

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Justin A. Lemkul
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Department of Biochemistry
Virginia Tech
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