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From: Axel Kohlmeyer (akohlmey_at_gmail.com)
Date: Mon Jul 25 2011 - 10:50:47 CDT

On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 11:05 AM, Bjoern Olausson
<namdlist_at_googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Monday 25 July 2011 15:35:51 Sara baretller wrote:
>> Hi all
>>
>> I am trying to understand a script and am wondering if any body knows
>> whatfind Pdbfiles and "*.pdb"
>> means ???
>>
>> foreach f [find Pdbfiles/ -name "*.pdb"] {
>> mol load pdb $f
>
> Find is a common tool found on Linux/UNIX/BSD.... Systems
> "man find":
> http://unixhelp.ed.ac.uk/CGI/man-cgi?find
>
> It searches in the folder "Pdbfiles" for all files ending in ".pdb"
>
> You probably want to make yourself a bit familiar with the UNIX/Linux command
> line tools:
> http://steve-parker.org/sh/sh.shtml
> http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596154493

in this case the even better recommendation would be to implement
the recursive file find using the tcl file command and thus increase its
portability massively.

cheers,
    axel.
> Cheers,
> Bjoern
>
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>
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> 

-- 
Dr. Axel Kohlmeyer
akohlmey_at_gmail.com  http://goo.gl/1wk0
Institute for Computational Molecular Science
Temple University, Philadelphia PA, USA.