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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Rename a large number of files in subdirectories Post 302634351 by rbatte1 on Thursday 3rd of May 2012 08:38:35 AM
Old 05-03-2012
Try
Code:
#!/bin/ksh
for foundfile in `find $dir -name "opp[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9].dat" -print`
do
   filedir="${file%/*}"
   echo mv $foundfile $filedir/out.dat
done

This will only display, so you can have a play to vary it. Just remove the echo word to execute for real when you are happy. The code looks for all files under $dir so you can choose what to substitute for that. It only picks up files which are the letters opp followed by four digits, followed by .dat, so if this doesn't quite match what you need, you will need to tweak that too.



I hope that this helps,
Robin
Liverpool/Blackburn
UK
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LEARN ABOUT HPUX

unknown

UNKNOWN(1)						      General Commands Manual							UNKNOWN(1)

NAME

       unknown - identify possible genotypes for unknowns

SYNOPSIS

       A program to rapidly identify which genotypes are possible for individuals typed as unknowns in the input pedigree.

       unknown [ -cl ]

DESCRIPTION

       unknown infers possible genotypes and mating combinations for parents with unknown genotypes for ilink(1), mlink(1) and linkmap(1).

OPTIONS

       -c     Use conditional allele frequencies.

       -l     Choose a good set of loop breakers automatically.

RETURN VALUE

       0     Successful completion

ERRORS

       10    File not found
       255   Failure

EXAMPLES

       Normally, unknown(1) is run immediately prior to its sister programs, ilink(1), mlink(1) and linkmap(1), like this:

       unknown
       mlink

FILES

       unknown(1) reads the two files pedfile.dat and datafile.dat as its own input and produces various temporary files that are used as input to
       the next program. These temporary files are ipedfile.dat, upedfile.dat, speedfile.dat and newspeedfile.dat.

NOTES

       unknown(1) is part of the FASTLINK package, which is a re-implementation of the LINKAGE suite  of  computer  tools  that  help  investigate
       genetic linkage as first proposed G.M. Lathrop, J.M. Lalouel, C. Julier, and J. Ott.

AUTHORS

       Dylan Cooper, Alejandro Schaffer, and Tony Schurtz based on work originally by Jurg Ott, Ph.D, et. al.

       This manual page was written by Elizabeth Barham <lizzy@soggytrousers.net> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).

WORD-WIDE-WEB
       http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/CBBResearch/Schaffer/fastlink.html

SEE ALSO

       ilink(1), linkmap(1), lodscore(1), mlink(1).

								  April 15, 2003							UNKNOWN(1)
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