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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Auto escape script to escape special chars in script args Post 302854889 by Corona688 on Wednesday 18th of September 2013 02:08:17 PM
Old 09-18-2013
This is a misunderstanding of the problem... It is not process.exe that requires all this quoting, it's the shell that requires all this quoting. Feeding it into any other program would have the same problem.

However, the shell has an easy way to do this. May I suggest the much simpler facility of double quotes? The only things you will need to escape inside them are " ` $.

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

Last edited by Corona688; 09-18-2013 at 03:29 PM..
 

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unitconv

unitconv(1)							     XCrySDen							       unitconv(1)

NAME

       unitconv - simple energy and length units converter

SYNOPSIS

       unitconv [unit] value
       unitconv [unit] expression

DESCRIPTION

       unitconv  is  a	simple	energy and length units converter (written in Tcl). It is a utility program of xcrysden package (http://www.xcrys-
       den.org/).

ENERGY UNITS

       The following energy units are supported.  The following list contain the "unit -- description" pairs, where the unit is to be specified on
       the command line.

       au -- Hartree

       ry -- Rydberg

       ev -- eV (electron volt)

       kjm -- kJ/mol

       kj -- kJ

       kcalm -- kcal/mol

       kcal -- kcal

LENGTH UNITS

       The following length units are supported (usage as above):

       angs -- Angstrom

       bohr -- Bohr radius

       m -- meter

EXAMPLES

       Convert a value from eV to other energy units:

       unitconv ev 3.25

       Calculate an expression (values in Rydberg unit) and convert to other energy units (note that expression must be quoted):

       unitconv ry "-103.134567 - (-240.691356 - -2*17.543471)/2"

       In expression also mathematical functions available in tclsh can be used.

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       Copyright (C) 1996--2012 Anton Kokalj

       This  program  is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
       the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.  You should have received a  copy	of
       the  GNU  General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
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XCrySDen							   March 9, 2012						       unitconv(1)
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