Open a file with Windows 10 Command Prompt
For Mac in Terminal I can type Chimera and the file name to open a volume etc which is very useful. In Windows 10 for Command Prompt Terminal I cannot seem to achieve this. I thought if I added "open" after the executable I could achieve this but it does not appear to work. Please can you advise? Many thanks. Mark
Hi, Mark. What is the actual command you typed? And did Chimera not start, or start but not open the data file? I am able to launch Chimera with a PDB file on my machine using the following commands: cd d:\chimerax\src\core\atomic "c:\Program Files\Chimera 2016-09-23\bin\chimera.exe" ideal_helix.pdb The first command sets the "current folder" and the second launches Chimera with a file in that folder. The latter command used a full path for a daily build of Chimera. If you put the Chimera "bin" directory in your PATH environment variable, you should be able to just type "chimera" instead. Conrad On 5/19/2017 12:32 AM, Mark F Rosenberg wrote:
For Mac in Terminal I can type Chimera and the file name to open a volume etc which is very useful. In Windows 10 for Command Prompt Terminal I cannot seem to achieve this. I thought if I added "open" after the executable I could achieve this but it does not appear to work. Please can you advise? Many thanks. Mark
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Mark, Conrad, I actually have a very small file called "chimera.bat" that I put in a folder in my path and it does the trick. I just type, for example, chimera ideal_helix.pdb the chimera.bat file is: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ @echo off start "" /B "c:\Program Files\Chimera 64 2015-11-09\bin\chimera.exe" %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- the full path to chimera in the start line has to be the the one corresponding to the version you are using. - Julian - On 5/19/2017 3:14 PM, Conrad Huang wrote:
Hi, Mark.
What is the actual command you typed? And did Chimera not start, or start but not open the data file?
I am able to launch Chimera with a PDB file on my machine using the following commands:
cd d:\chimerax\src\core\atomic "c:\Program Files\Chimera 2016-09-23\bin\chimera.exe" ideal_helix.pdb
The first command sets the "current folder" and the second launches Chimera with a file in that folder. The latter command used a full path for a daily build of Chimera. If you put the Chimera "bin" directory in your PATH environment variable, you should be able to just type "chimera" instead.
Conrad
On 5/19/2017 12:32 AM, Mark F Rosenberg wrote:
For Mac in Terminal I can type Chimera and the file name to open a volume etc which is very useful. In Windows 10 for Command Prompt Terminal I cannot seem to achieve this. I thought if I added "open" after the executable I could achieve this but it does not appear to work. Please can you advise? Many thanks. Mark
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Julian, Thanks so much again. I am used to using Apple computers so I am not familiar with paths in Windows 10. I will research how to do this now. I will try your valued suggestion the next time I am on my PC. Thank you. Mark
On 19 May 2017, at 21:45, Julian Tirado-Rives <julian.tirado-rives@yale.edu> wrote:
Mark, Conrad,
I actually have a very small file called "chimera.bat" that I put in a folder in my path and it does the trick. I just type, for example,
chimera ideal_helix.pdb
the chimera.bat file is:
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ @echo off start "" /B "c:\Program Files\Chimera 64 2015-11-09\bin\chimera.exe" %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
the full path to chimera in the start line has to be the the one corresponding to the version you are using.
- Julian -
On 5/19/2017 3:14 PM, Conrad Huang wrote:
Hi, Mark.
What is the actual command you typed? And did Chimera not start, or start but not open the data file?
I am able to launch Chimera with a PDB file on my machine using the following commands:
cd d:\chimerax\src\core\atomic "c:\Program Files\Chimera 2016-09-23\bin\chimera.exe" ideal_helix.pdb
The first command sets the "current folder" and the second launches Chimera with a file in that folder. The latter command used a full path for a daily build of Chimera. If you put the Chimera "bin" directory in your PATH environment variable, you should be able to just type "chimera" instead.
Conrad
On 5/19/2017 12:32 AM, Mark F Rosenberg wrote:
For Mac in Terminal I can type Chimera and the file name to open a volume etc which is very useful. In Windows 10 for Command Prompt Terminal I cannot seem to achieve this. I thought if I added "open" after the executable I could achieve this but it does not appear to work. Please can you advise? Many thanks. Mark
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