VM - System call

PURPOSE

To access the operating system from SPIDER using a system (Unix) command. Obsolete legacy operation use 'SYS' operation now.   Example.

SEE ALSO

EV	[Set system environmental variable]

USAGE

.OPERATION: VM

  <or>
VM M [For 'VM M' multiline input is accepted until a line has only a intial '.' (dot). To put a blank at the end of a line, place it at the beginning of the following line or it will disappear.]

.SYSTEM COMMAND:   ls   *.OMM
[Enter the system command you want executed. This may also be a Unix shell command file.
Substitution of do-loop indices, symbolic and register variables is allowed anywhere in the command line.]

NOTES

1. SPIDER comments are not accepted in the system command line because the SPIDER comment character (;) is used to string system commands together on the same line in Unix.

2. You must specify the extension for any filenames within the system command as they are NOT appended automatically by SPIDER (as there is no way to recognize what is a filename). You can use the string: $DATEXT to substitute the current SPIDER data extension into the corresponding position in your command line. You can use the string: $PRJEXT to substitute the current SPIDER project extension into the corresponding position in your command line.

3. The "VM" name for this operation is left over from the VAX/VMS system operation name.

4. Sample of substituting register variables in floating point format into a 'VM' system command:

   [var] = 34.56

   VM    ; To write out the following: Var is now= 34.5600
     echo Var is now= {%F7.4%[var]}

   VM    ; To write out the following: Var is now= 3.4560E+01
     echo Var is now= {%ES11.4%[var]}

5. Sample of substituting register variables in integer format into a 'VM' system command:

   [var] = -1
   VM    ; To write out the following: Var is now= -1
     echo Var is now= {%I3%[var]}

6. Sample of substituting string variables into a 'VM' system command:

   [filename] = 'gifile.gnu'
   VM    ; To write out the following: cat file.gnu
      cat [filename]

   Place the FORTRAN format within '%' symbols followed by the register whose contents are to be substituted. All of this has to be enclosed within the wavy brackets.

7. Samples of usage within SPIDER loops.

    
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     -- Sample loop for converting series of 1024 x 512 raw images  
     -- to SGI rgb format:                                                 
    
     [nsam] = 1024     ; Nsam 
     [nrow] = 512      ; Nrow 
     DO I=1,5          ; Loop 
        VM             ; Use "frombin" to convert images 
        frombin raw{***i}.$DATEXT   sgi{***i}.rgb {****[nsam]} {***[nrow]}  
     ENDDO             ; End loop 
     
    
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     -- Sample loop for renaming/renumbering series of SPIDER images:    
    
     [n]=33  
     DO I=1,4               ; Loop 
        VM                  ; System call for renumbering 
          cp jnk{***[n]}.dat  jnk444{***I}.dat  
        [n]=[n]+1           ; Increment output file number counter 
     ENDDO                  ; End loop 
     
    
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     -- Sample loop for consecutively renaming/renumbering series of SPIDER  
     -- images while skipping any missing image numbers:                  
    
     [num]=0                     ; Initialize output file number counter 
     DO [it]=1,4                 ; Loop 
        IQ FI [exists]           ; Use "IQ FI" to see if file exists 
          jnk{***[it]}           ; Filename 
        IF([exists].LE.0)CYCLE   ; Skip if file not found 
        [num]=[num]+1            ; Increment output file number counter 
        VM                       ; System call for renaming/renumbering SPIDER images 
          cp jnk{***[it]}.dat  jnk444{***[num]}.dat  
     ENDDO                       ; End loop 
     
    
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     -- Sample showing symbolic parameter substitution within a procedure: 
    
     [var]=55          ; Set register variable outside of procedure   
                       ;  (binding time for parameter substitution is 
                       ;   before procedure is executed!) 
     @testvm           ; Invoke testvm SPIDER procedure 
     doc               ; Value given to: FILENAME PREFIX solicited 
                       ;   by testvm procedure 
     Contents of invoked procedure testvm: 
         FR                              
           ?FILENAME PREFIX?[pre]     
         VM                             
           rm [pre]{***[var]}.$DATEXT  
     Result of invoked procedure: 
         rm doc055.DAT 
     
    
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SUBROUTINES

VMS

CALLER

DRIV1