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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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