could you use a question mark to replace the space?
I try to avoid spaces in any unix file names or paths... even on the
command line you can't use a space directly.
On Fri, Aug 25, 2023 at 12:41 PM Mark Mackey via AMBER <amber.ambermd.org>
wrote:
> Dear AMBER developers,
>
> I've been trying to use cpptraj with some files with a space in the path
> name. I've been unable to get this to work at all:
>
> > parm /tmp/path space/acetone.prmtop
> [parm /tmp/path space/acetone.prmtop]
> Error: '/tmp/path': No such file or directory
> Error: Could not open topology '/tmp/path'
>
> > parm "/tmp/path space/acetone.prmtop"
> [parm "/tmp/path space/acetone.prmtop"]
> Error: '/tmp/path': No such file or directory
> Error: Could not open topology '/tmp/path'
> Error: 'space/acetone.prmtop': No such file or directory
> Error: Could not open topology 'space/acetone.prmtop'
>
> > parm /tmp/path\ space/acetone.prmtop
> [parm /tmp/path\ space/acetone.prmtop]
> Error: Bad syntax (unbalanced parentheses, unmatched quotes.
> Error: '/tmp/path\' corresponds to no files.
>
> > parm /tmp/path\\ space/acetone.prmtop
> [parm /tmp/path\\ space/acetone.prmtop]
> Error: '/tmp/path\': No such file or directory
> Error: Could not open topology '/tmp/path\'
>
> > parm "/tmp/path\ space/acetone.prmtop"
> [parm "/tmp/path\ space/acetone.prmtop"]
> Reading '/tmp/path space/acetone.prmtop' as Amber Topology
> Error reading topology file '/tmp/path space/acetone.prmtop'
> Error: Could not open topology '/tmp/path space/acetone.prmtop'
>
> The last one looks like it nearly worked, but not quite! Any suggestions?
> If this can't be done, can I please add this as a feature request?
>
> Regards,
> Mark
>
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