Including other files

If, for some reason, you want to spread your PLUMED input over a number of files you can use INCLUDE as shown below:

INCLUDE FILE=filename

So, for example, a single "plumed.dat" file:

DISTANCE ATOMS=0,1 LABEL=dist
RESTRAINT ARG=dist

(see DISTANCE and RESTRAINT)

could be split up into two files as shown below:

DISTANCE ATOMS=0,1 LABEL=dist
INCLUDE FILE=toBeIncluded.dat

plus a "toBeIncluded.dat" file

RESTRAINT ARG=dist

However, when you do this it is important to recognise that INCLUDE is a real directive that is only resolved after all the Comments have been stripped and the Continuation lines have been unrolled. This means it is not possible to do things like:

# this is wrong:
DISTANCE INCLUDE FILE=options.dat
RESTRAINT ARG=dist