On 12 Feb 2013, at 07:32, openbabel-discuss-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net wrote:

> Message: 3
> Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2013 19:40:53 +0000
> From: Chris Morley <c.mor...@gaseq.co.uk>
> Subject: Re: [Open Babel] 2.3.2
> To: openbabel-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net
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> On 09/02/2013 20:04, Chris Swain wrote:
>> Hi
>> My main machine has OpenBabel 2.3.1 installed and this command works fine.
>> 
>> ChrisMacbookPro:~ swain$ /usr/local/bin/obgrep -v -c "NNNN" 
>> /Users/swain/Desktop/ChemicalStructures/acetophenones.sdf
>> 665
>> The number being the number of molecules in the sdf file.
>> 
>> 
>> I've been playing around with OpenBabel 2.3.2 from SVN and I now get an 
>> error, it seems I now need to explicitly include the input file type.
>> 
>> ChrisMacbookPro:~ swain$ /usr/local/bin/obgrep -v -c "NNNN" 
>> /Users/swain/Desktop/ChemicalStructures/acetophenones.sdf
>> 
>> Does not work but if I include -isdf it does work.
>> 
>> SMILES files work with or without the input file defined.
>> 
>> I'm not sure if this is something I have done or if it is a bug?
> 
> It does that for me too, apparently as a result of a change made last 
> summer.
> 
> As an alternative, you could use obabel with the -v option and a nul 
> output format:
> 
>   obabel 10dataset.sdf -onul -v "C1CCCCC1"
>   8 molecules converted
> 
> This has the extension in that, instead of a SMARTS pattern, the 
> parameter of -v can be the name of a file containing several structures 
> (in any format) you want to exclude (or, with the -s option, include).
> 
> There is currently no obabel equivalent of obgrep's -t NUM option which 
> restricts to molecules with exactly NUM matches - but I've just 
> rectified that in the development code.
> 
> Chris

Am I correct in thinking the output is written to stand error not standard 
output?

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