I think all you need is a little perl script that takes your system input,
wraps it with those two bits, and spits it out. Surely Linux can do this.

On Thu, Oct 1, 2015 at 7:45 AM, MPI <mpi...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Robert,
>
>  Thanks.   Jmol can take scripts or commands but this is not what I want.
>
> It would be very helpful if you can set up another flag to let  Jmol
> take a structure from  a pipe  like ' - ' in  linux systems
>
> cat foo.pdb |  jmol   -FLAG   -
>
>
> Thank you very much.
>
> Dwey
>
>
>
> >Just wrap your system input with
>
> >load DATA "mydata"
> >....
> >END "mydata"
>
> >I think that can be done using pipes, right? If not, I could set up a flag
> for that.
>
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 3:05 PM, MPI <mpi...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi Robert and Angel,
> >
> >  Thansk for the hints.
> >
> > This is  NOT what I am looking for.
> >
> > I want to pipe a  structure  input ( such as a pdb file, NOT script ) to
> > Jmol.
> >
> > Jmol -I  allows piping of  "script" input from System.Input.
> >
> > But I am looking for  piping of  a structure input
> >
> > something like
> >
> > cat  foo.pdb  |  jmol  -
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Dwey
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > >  -I,--input                      allow piping of input from
> System.Input
> >
> >
> > >see
> >
> > >java -jar Jmol.jar -h
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 1:07 PM, Angel Herr?ez <angel.herraez@...>
> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi Dwey
> > >
> > > I have no experience with bash, but there used to be several batch
> files
> > > to start Jmol from command lines, maybe one of them gives you a hint.
> > >
> > > The files were included in the Jmol distribution package, before JSmol.
> > > So you can either download an old version or go to the source, i.e.
> > > https://sourceforge.net/p/jmol/code/HEAD/tree/trunk/Jmol/
> > >
> > > "jmol" pr "jmol.sh" might be what you need?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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St. Olaf College
Northfield, MN
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