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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting For loop to run external program Post 302557587 by oldmanwinter on Wednesday 21st of September 2011 04:18:33 PM
Old 09-21-2011
Question For loop to run external program
Hi, I was hoping for help with a for loop to run a program (vina) repeatedly using all the files in a folder as input. Currently my code looks like this:
Code:
#!/bin/bash
FILES=/home/afalk/Desktop/battest/*.pdbqt
for f in $FILES do
vina --config /home/afalk/Desktop/A.txt --ligand "$f".pdbqt
done

vina simply runs as "vina" in the terminal and this code is my attempt at translating a working batch file I had for windows. Whenever I try to run this, and after endless changes to the syntax all I get is "line 4: syntax error near unexpected token `vina'". Can anyone see what I'm doing wrong?
 

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dtsetup

dtsetup(8)						      System Manager's Manual							dtsetup(8)

NAME

       dtsetup - Configure and Customize the Common Desktop Environment (CDE)

SYNOPSIS

       /usr/dt/bin/dtsetup X resources

OPTIONS

       Specifies the standard X11 resource options. For more information, see the X(1X) reference page.

DESCRIPTION

       The  CDE  Setup	application, dtsetup, provides you with a mechanism to customize your Common Desktop Environment by using a graphical user
       interface.

       It also provides System Administrators a means to create a CDE environment for various types of users.

       When you invoke the CDE Setup application, a panel of four icons are displayed: Quick Setup, Desktop, Login, and Services.

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       The Desktop icon lets you or the system administrator set up the front panel, establish various window manager resources,  define  starting
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       The  Login  icon  lets  you  provide  information about your login session, while the system administrator can also set up the system login
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RESTRICTIONS

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FILES

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