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"babel" Command - Output Data Destination and Format
How to specify Output Data Destination and Format for a "babel" command?
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"babel" command arguments and options are organized into 3 sections
as shown in the following syntax to convert chemical data
from input to output with specified options.
babel input_section output_section option_section
You use output_section to specify Output Data Destination and Format for a "babel" command. The output_section must be the second section of the "babel" command line.
The output_section contains to two optional parts to specify output data format and output data destination as shown in the following syntax:
babel input_section [-o output_format] [output_name] option_section
There are 2 ways to specify output data format:
Explicit Format Name - A pre-defined format name is specified after the "-o" option flag with or without a space " ".
Here are some examples of specifying input data formats explicitly:
-o sdf -osdf -o smiles -osmiles -o svg -osvg ...
Implicit Format Name - No "-o" option flag is specified. In this case, the output_name part is required. Open Babel will determine the output data format implicitly from file name extension of output_name.
For example, the following "babel" command uses "molecule.svg" as the output_name to determine the output data format as "svg". This command writes data to molecule.svg in "svg" format.
fyicenter$ babel molecule.sdf molecule.svg 1 molecule converted 29 audit log messages
There are 3 ways to specify output data destination:
File name of a single output file - In this case, the output data goes to the specified file.
For example, the following "babel" command uses "molecule.svg" as the output_section, which specifies a single file named "molecule.svg". This command converts the molecule data from molecule.sdf to molecule.svg.
fyicenter$ babel molecule.sdf molecule.svg 1 molecule converted 29 audit log messages
File name prefix and extension for multiple output files with the "-m" option. In this case, the output data goes to multiple files, one per molecule.
For example, the following "babel" command uses "multi_.svg" as the output_section. This command converts molecules from multi.sdf to multi_1.svg, multi_2.svg, ..., because of the "-m" option.
fyicenter$ babel multi.sdf multi_.svg -m 3 molecules converted 3 files output. The first is multi_1.svg 87 audit log messages fyicenter$ ls -l multi_*.* -rw-r--r-- 1 fyicenter staff 7665 Apr 1 20:42 multi_1.svg -rw-r--r-- 1 fyicenter staff 5439 Apr 1 20:42 multi_2.svg -rw-r--r-- 1 fyicenter staff 5189 Apr 1 20:42 multi_3.svg
"stdout" stream - No output file is specified. In this case, the output data goes to the "stdin" stream, which could be the console screen, or data redirected to a command pipe. With no input file name, "babel" requires the "-o ..." option in the output_section to specify the output data type.
For example, the following "babel" command uses "-o smiles" as the output_section, which tells Open Babel to read "stdin" as SMILES data. This command reads chemical data from molecule.sdf and write to the screen in SMILES format
fyicenter$ babel molecule.sdf -o smiles O(C(=O)CCN1CC1)CC 20009 1 molecule converted 34 audit log messages
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