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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Automate the process of running jobs on several directories consecutively Post 302556211 by lost.identity on Saturday 17th of September 2011 06:33:49 AM
Old 09-17-2011
Automate the process of running jobs on several directories consecutively

Hi, I have about 10 directories in which I run the same code. But this code is only run in a directory when the computation in the previous directory was successful (explained below).

My directories are named as :

VF_50, VF_100, VF_150, VF_200.............

As you can see the number after _ keeps increasing. The lowest (in this case VF_50) is the first directory I want to run the code. I need a shell script that can determine the order in which I would run the code.

So I first run the code in VF_50. If it's successful (by opening a file output.dat created from the code and searching for the word "success") then I move to directory VF_100.

Is there anyway to automate this?

Many thanks.
 

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mvdir(1M)																 mvdir(1M)

NAME
mvdir - move a directory SYNOPSIS
dir newdir DESCRIPTION
moves one directory tree into another existing directory (within the same file system), or renames a directory without moving it. dir must be an existing directory. If newdir does not exist but the directory that would contain it does, dir is moved and/or renamed to newdir. Otherwise, newdir must be an existing directory not already containing an entry with the same name as the last pathname component of dir. In this case, dir is moved and becomes a subdirectory of newdir. The last pathname component of dir is used as the name for the moved directory. refuses to move dir if the path specified by newdir would be a descendent directory of the path specified by dir. Such cases are not allowed because cyclic sub-trees would be created as in the case, for example, of which is prohibited. does not allow directory to be moved. Only users who have appropriate privileges can use EXTERNAL INFLUENCES
International Code Set Support Single- and multi-byte character code sets are supported. AUTHOR
was developed by OSF and HP. SEE ALSO
cp(1), mkdir(1), mv(1). STANDARDS CONFORMANCE
mvdir(1M)
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