5.1 Command Line Interface

A description of the command line interface can be obtained by executing mol2ps with no arguments.

prompt> mol2ps

will generate the following output:

Mol2PS v1.6 Chemical Structure Renderer
OpenEye Scientific Software, February 2008

Usage: mol2ps [-ncol N] [-nrow N] [options] <infile> <out.ps>

Command line options are distinguished from filenames by having a `-' prefix. Options can appear anywhere on the command line, i.e. before, after or in between filenames. When incompatible options are specified, the last one given on the command line takes effect.

The first filename given on the command line is taken to be the input molecule file, and the optional second filename is treated as the output image file. A minus character may be used in place of the input filename to specify that the input is to be read from standard input, stdin, and in place of the output filename to specify that the output is to be written to standard output, stdout.

				Ogham 2D Chemical Structure Layout and Rendering

				Ogham 2D Chemical Structure Layout and Rendering