Hi Chris, We don't have a one step way to send a command to Chimera though I agree that would be handy. I'll add to our request list a command-line option like --send that just takes Chimera command instead of a file. For now I'm afraid the best that can be done is to use a temporary file: echo "open 1zik" > /tmp/a.cmd ; chimera --send /tmp/a.cmd Tom -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Chimera-users] Sending commands via terminal To: chimera-users@cgl.ucsf.edu Date: 6/24/09 11:41 PM

Hi,

I was wondering if there was a simple way to send commands (such as "open 1zik" or "preset apply int 2’" ) to an already running instance of chimera. I want to be able to send this command using 1 line of command. This means that "--start ReadStdin" would not work because it allows commands to be sent indefinitely.

Potentially I could write the commands in a python script and use the --send command, however I would like to avoid this if I just want to send a single command to chimera.

Thanks for your help,

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