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

[Peter C. Lai]

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,
> 
> 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 10 ps.  I can save this data in an .xvg file (coord.xvg) using the -ox
> switch.  
> 
> However, what if I would rather not save the data to an .xvg file (since I
> just want to take a quick look)?  Does anyone know if it is possible to
> redirect the output of g_traj to the screen, rather than to coord.xvg?
> 
> Thank you so much for your time! 
> 
> Andrew DeYoung
> Carnegie Mellon University
> 
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