04-23-2014
Renaming files with part of their pathname and copying them to new directory
Hi
I think this should be relatively simple but I can't figure it out. I have several files with the same name in different folders within a directory (the output of a program that I ran). Something like this:
./myAnalysis/item1/round1/myoutput.txt
./myAnalysis/item1/round2/myoutput.txt
./myAnalysis/item2/round1/myoutput.txt
./myAnalysis/item2/round2/myoutput.txt
I would like to search the myAnalysis directory for all the myoutput.txt files, rename them to include the item and round number from their pathnames and then COPY them to another directory (e.g. leaving the original files/structure intact as that in turn is configured for input into another program).
so I want a new folder with the following files
./newFolder/item1_round1_myoutput.txt
./newFolder/item1_round2_myoutput.txt
./newFolder/item2_round1_myoutput.txt
./newFolder/item2_round2_myoutput.txt
Any suggestions?
Thanks!
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xclip-copyfile
XCLIP-COPYFILE(1) General Commands Manual XCLIP-COPYFILE(1)
NAME
xclip-copyfile, xclip-cutfile, xclip-pastefile - copy and move files via the X clipboard
SYNOPSIS
xclip-copyfile [-p] FILES...
xclip-cutfile [-p] FILES...
xclip-pastefile
DESCRIPTION
xclip-copyfile copies files into the X clipboard, recursing into directories.
xclip-cutfile copies the files, but also deletes them afterwards.
-p preserve path formation
xclip-pastefile pastes the files out of the clipboard
EXAMPLES
Copying a file to a remote host
[maggie.lkpg.cendio.se ~]$ echo "A file created on ${HOSTNAME}" > file1
[maggie.lkpg.cendio.se ~]$ xclip-copyfile file1
[sofie.homeip.net ~/doc]$ xclip-pastefile
file1
[sofie.homeip.net ~/doc]$ cat file1
A file created on maggie.lkpg.cendio.se
Copying an entire tree structure
[sofie.homeip.net ~]$ xclip-copyfile doc
[maggie.lkpg.cendio.se ~/tmp]$ xclip-pastefile
doc/
doc/letter-mom-april.txt
doc/file1
doc/letter-dad-march.txt
Copying files with preserved path information
[maggie.lkpg.cendio.se ~]$ xclip-copyfile -p /etc/sysconfig/grub
tar: Removing leading `/' from member names
[sofie.homeip.net ~/tmp]$ xclip-pastefile
etc/sysconfig/grub
[sofie.homeip.net ~/tmp]$ ls etc/sysconfig/grub
etc/sysconfig/grub
Moving files
[sofie.homeip.net ~]$ ls letter-brother-may.txt
letter-brother-may.txt
[sofie.homeip.net ~]$ xclip-cutfile letter-brother-may.txt
[sofie.homeip.net ~]$ ls letter-brother-may.txt
ls: cannot access letter-brother-may.txt: No such file or directory
[sofie.homeip.net ~]$ cd doc
[sofie.homeip.net ~/doc]$ xclip-pastefile
letter-brother-may.txt
AUTHORS
This manual page was written by Maximilian Gass <mxey@cloudconnected.org> for the Debian project. It may be used for everything else, of
course.
XCLIP-COPYFILE(1)