12-11-2011
Complex renaming then moving files
I am a biologist and using an program on a computer cluster that generates a lot of data. The program creates a directory named
ExperimentX (where X is a number) that contains files "out.pdb" and "log.txt". I would like to create a script that renames the out.pdb file to out_ExperimentX.pdb (or something to differentiate it from all the other out files) and then moves the new out files to a new, common directory.
Can anyone help with me a script? I am kind of paralyzed without being able to rename and then move these files en mass because there are about 1 million directories with out files.
Thanks...
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SYNOPSIS
bel [-e file] [-s file] [-d delay]
DESCRIPTION
bel generates a script allowing the user to open a shell or execute a command on a remote computer through several machines. In order to
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The directory where you want to put the generated scripts.
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Delay to wait before each sent command, in seconds.
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