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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Auto escape script to escape special chars in script args Post 302854873 by LMHmedchem on Wednesday 18th of September 2013 01:28:26 PM
Old 09-18-2013
Auto escape script to escape special chars in script args

This is a bit off the wall, but I often need to run scripts where there are argument values that contain special characters.

For example,
Code:
$ ./process.exe -t M -N -o temp.mol.s -i ../molfiles/N,N\',N\'\'-trimethylbis\(hexamethylene\)triamine.mol && sfile_space_to_tab.sh  temp.mol.s temp.s

It is tedious to manually escape everything and auto complete does not always solve this problem.

I was wondering if I could write a script and pass my entire command string to the script. I would keep the script in a path directory and the script would escape chars where necessary and then pass the string along to bash. The syntax could look like,

Code:
$ auto_escape ./process.exe -t M -N -o temp.mol.s -i ../molfiles/N,N\',N\'\'-trimethylbis\(hexamethylene\)triamine.mol && sfile_space_to_tab.sh  temp.mol.s temp.s

I think I could do the substitutions in sed, but I'm not sure how to capture everything after auto_escape and pass that to sed.

A bigger issue is how to keep the notion of pwd in tact. The pwd locations of process.exe and auto_escape will be different, so when bash recieves the string from the auto_escape script, I'm not sure how I could get bash to properly interpret ./, ../ etc, in terms of the original script location.

Thanks for the advice,

LMHmedchem
 

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g_clustsize(1)					 GROMACS suite, VERSION 4.5.4-dev-20110404-bc5695c				    g_clustsize(1)

NAME
g_clustsize - calculate size distributions of atomic clusters VERSION 4.5.4-dev-20110404-bc5695c SYNOPSIS
g_clustsize -f traj.xtc -s topol.tpr -n index.ndx -o csize.xpm -ow csizew.xpm -nc nclust.xvg -mc maxclust.xvg -ac avclust.xvg -hc histo-clust.xvg -temp temp.xvg -mcn maxclust.ndx -[no]h -[no]version -nice int -b time -e time -dt time -tu enum -[no]w -xvg enum -cut real -[no]mol -[no]pbc -nskip int -nlevels int -ndf int -rgblo vector -rgbhi vector DESCRIPTION
This program computes the size distributions of molecular/atomic clusters in the gas phase. The output is given in the form of an .xpm file. The total number of clusters is written to an .xvg file. When the -mol option is given clusters will be made out of molecules rather than atoms, which allows clustering of large molecules. In this case an index file would still contain atom numbers or your calculation will die with a SEGV. When velocities are present in your trajectory, the temperature of the largest cluster will be printed in a separate .xvg file assuming that the particles are free to move. If you are using constraints, please correct the temperature. For instance water simulated with SHAKE or SETTLE will yield a temperature that is 1.5 times too low. You can compensate for this with the -ndf option. Remember to take the removal of center of mass motion into account. The -mc option will produce an index file containing the atom numbers of the largest cluster. FILES
-f traj.xtc Input Trajectory: xtc trr trj gro g96 pdb cpt -s topol.tpr Input, Opt. Portable xdr run input file -n index.ndx Input, Opt. Index file -o csize.xpm Output X PixMap compatible matrix file -ow csizew.xpm Output X PixMap compatible matrix file -nc nclust.xvg Output xvgr/xmgr file -mc maxclust.xvg Output xvgr/xmgr file -ac avclust.xvg Output xvgr/xmgr file -hc histo-clust.xvg Output xvgr/xmgr file -temp temp.xvg Output, Opt. xvgr/xmgr file -mcn maxclust.ndx Output, Opt. Index file OTHER OPTIONS
-[no]hno Print help info and quit -[no]versionno Print version info and quit -nice int 19 Set the nicelevel -b time 0 First frame (ps) to read from trajectory -e time 0 Last frame (ps) to read from trajectory -dt time 0 Only use frame when t MOD dt = first time (ps) -tu enum ps Time unit: fs, ps, ns, us, ms or s -[no]wno View output .xvg, .xpm, .eps and .pdb files -xvg enum xmgrace xvg plot formatting: xmgrace, xmgr or none -cut real 0.35 Largest distance (nm) to be considered in a cluster -[no]molno Cluster molecules rather than atoms (needs .tpr file) -[no]pbcyes Use periodic boundary conditions -nskip int 0 Number of frames to skip between writing -nlevels int 20 Number of levels of grey in .xpm output -ndf int -1 Number of degrees of freedom of the entire system for temperature calculation. If not set, the number of atoms times three is used. -rgblo vector 1 1 0 RGB values for the color of the lowest occupied cluster size -rgbhi vector 0 0 1 RGB values for the color of the highest occupied cluster size SEE ALSO
gromacs(7) More information about GROMACS is available at <http://www.gromacs.org/>. Mon 4 Apr 2011 g_clustsize(1)
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