Duc asked how to convert ".ent to .pdb" files in the Brookhaven database -
I think he just wants to convert all the file names to a new format. This
is something I've had to do, because most modeling programs expect to see
names of the form "6lyz.ent", not "pdb6lyz.ent" as supplied on the tape.
My inelegant solution was to stick all the filenames in the brookhaven
directory into a file -
find ./ -name \*\.ent -print > pdb_list
then edit pdb_list with ed and do a global replace to get rid of the leading
pdb and trailing .ent of each file name (I confess I don't remember the
exact editor commands I used), then use this script:
# Start
while(1)
set file = ($<)
if ($#file == 0) then
break
endif
mv pdb{$file}.ent {$file}.pdb
end
exit
# Finish
with input redirected from pdb_list. Probably not how a "guru" would do it,
but it worked. (Could someone post a simpler way of doing it??) If some
smarty says to put all the file names in a shell variable instead of a file,
he should be aware that the list of names is too long to fit in a shell
variable on my system.
Randy Zauhar
Penn State
