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Tables for Crystallography Volume G Definition and exchange of crystallographic data Edited by S. R. Hall and B. McMahon © International Union of Crystallography 2006 |
International Tables for Crystallography (2006). Vol. G. ch. 5.3, p. 519
Section 5.3.7.1.2.3. zincGrep
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The shell script zincGrep is the utility most requested by those seeing a CIF for the first time. It allows a regular-expression search of a ZINC-format file (or a CIF specified on the command line, which is converted to a ZINC-format file first) and reports the block name, data name, index and value. For example, if the file describing a triangle in the last section were called simple.cif, the command zincGrep _name simple.cif would produce