Using bash variables in sed command

Bash commands such as awk and sed are very handy tools when dealing with text files. For example, if line 30~70 in a pw.out file are the atom coordinates, we can simply type in the terminal: $ sed -n '30,70' pw.out and line 30~70 will show up on the terminal. Things get tricker when the line numbers are variables. Often times we want to use sed in a bash script,...

[VMD] Run vmd from Mac terminal

Our work can be done faster and more efficiently if we do everything through the terminal. To ask vmd to open a file through MacOS X terminal, just type in: $/Applications/VMD\ 1.9.1.app/Contents/Resources/VMD.app/Contents/MacOS/VMD One-liner! Of course, I prefer a shorter version of the command vmd. Add the alias...