Raw Copy

From Open Babel

Filename Extensions	copy
Chemical MIME Type	Undefined
Specification URL	http://openbabel.sourceforge.net/wiki/Raw_Copy
Import	No
Export	Yes
Open Babel Version	2.0.0 and later

Options

Objects can be chemically filtered without the risk of losing any additional information they contain, 
since no format conversion is done. Note that XML files may be missing non-object elements at the 
start or end and so may no longer be well-formed.

Additional Comments

Example

Extract only structures that include at least one aromatic carbon (by matching the SMARTS pattern '[c]')

babel -s '[c]' database.sdf -ocopy new.sd