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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Bash-how to properly READ and PASTE variables. Post 302575376 by arisinhell on Monday 21st of November 2011 12:22:59 PM
Old 11-21-2011
Bash-how to properly READ and PASTE variables.

Recently i made a script for a project at molecular dynamics but am stuck at the last step.The thing i want to do is to ask the user to input the number of particles, then replace the bolded numbers at lines 9 and 17..

code

Code:
#!/bin/bash
#read number of particles
echo "insert the number of particles"
read particles
#convert text
#mv coordinates.txt coordinates
#main.in manipulation
#insert number of particles
sed 's/.*input_coord.*/particle 936  #input_coord/g' main.in > main.tmp; mv main.tmp main.in
#remove old coordinates
grep -Ev '#______' main.in  > main.tmp; mv main.tmp main.in
#add new coordinates
sed '/input_coord/ r coordinates' main.in > main.tmp; mv main.tmp main.in
#acf.f manipulation
#add number of particles
sed '3s/.*/      DATA ITM\/1000\/,IM\/936\//' acf.f > acf.tmp; mv acf.tmp acf.f
#xmd
../xmd/src/xmd main.in > timelog.out
#compile acf.f
..
blah
blah


I tried something like this
Code:
read particles
..
sed 's/.*input_coord.*/particle ${particles}  #input_coord/g' main.in >
or
sed 's/.*input_coord.*/particle $particles  #input_coord/g' main.in >

but still nothing..




Thank you in advanceSmilie

Last edited by pludi; 11-21-2011 at 03:48 PM..
 

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DwtMainSetAreas(3Dwt)													     DwtMainSetAreas(3Dwt)

Name
       DwtMainSetAreas - Sets up or adds the menu bar, command window, work window, and scroll bar widgets to the main window widget of the appli-
       cation.

Syntax
       void DwtMainSetAreas(widget, menu_bar, work_window,
			    command_window, horizontal_scroll_bar,
			    vertical_scroll_bar)
	    Widget widget;
	    Widget menu_bar;
	    Widget work_window, command_window;
	    Widget horizontal_scroll_bar, vertical_scroll_bar;

Arguments
       widget	 Specifies the main window widget ID.

       menu_bar  Specifies the widget ID for the menu bar to be associated with the main window widget.  You can set this ID only  after  creating
		 an instance of the main window widget.  The attribute name associated with this argument is DwtNmenuBar.

       work_window
		 Specifies  the widget ID for the work window to be associated with the main window widget.  You can set this ID only after creat-
		 ing an instance of the main window widget.  The attribute name associated with this argument is DwtNworkWindow.

       command_window
		 Specifies the widget ID for the command window to be associated with the main window widget.  You can set this ID only after cre-
		 ating an instance of the main window widget.  The attribute name associated with this argument is DwtNcommandWindow.

       horizontal_scroll_bar
		 Specifies  the scroll bar widget ID for the horizontal scroll bar to be associated with the main window widget.  You can set this
		 ID only after creating an instance of the main window widget.	The attribute name associated with this argument  is  DwtNhorizon-
		 talScrollBar.

       vertical_scroll_bar
		 Specifies the scroll bar widget ID for the vertical scroll bar to be associated with the main window widget.  You can set this ID
		 only after creating an instance of the main window widget.  The attribute  name  associated  with  this  argument  is	DwtNverti-
		 calScrollBar.

Description
       The  DwtMainSetAreas  function  sets up or adds the menu bar, work window, command window, and scroll bar widgets to the application's main
       window widget.  You must set these areas up before the main window widget is realized, that is, before calling the  X  intrinsics  function
       XtRealizeWidget.

       Each area is optional; therefore, you can pass NULL to one or more of these arguments.  The title bar is provided by the window manager.

See Also
       Guide to the XUI Toolkit: C Language Binding
       Guide to the XUI Toolkit Intrinsics: C Language Binding

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