OSZICAR

Variables

The table below details the correspondence between OSZICAR and OUTCAR:

OSZICAR OUTCAR Explanation Details
T temperature current temperature
E ETOTAL total energy
F total free energy
E0 the energy for
EK EKIN kinetic energy
SP EPS nose potential the potential energy of the Nosé thermostat
SK ES nose kinetic the corresponding kinetic energy
EKIN_LAT kin. lattice
TOTEN ion-electron

Parsing

Use johnkerl/miller (mlr) to parse the DKVP-like format and convert it to CSV:

cat OSZICAR | grep T= | awk '{$1= ""; print $0}' | sed -e "s/= /=/g" | sed -e "s/ /,/g" | mlr --ocsv cat > out.csv 

References