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

Hiroshi Fujisaki fujisaki at nms.ac.jp
Fri Aug 12 19:53:51 CEST 2011


Dear Justin,

Thanks for your prompt reply and help.
I understood about the first item, but even if I type 
export GMX_MAXBACKUP=0 (bash)
it does not seem to work. What is the recommended 
procedure? Is there any problem with revision?

I appreciate your help.

Best wishes,

> 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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