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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to define two digits variable in shell script? Post 302961760 by emily on Thursday 3rd of December 2015 08:45:11 AM
Old 12-03-2015
How to define two digits variable in shell script?
Dear Shell script Experts,
I am working on shell script which is defined here, qsub_seq.csh [1]. The purpose of this script is to read few input files (with defined starting index and last index) and make processing faster over server.
For some task, I had 1064 of input files, so I wrote another script, submitjob.sh [2] to make it quicker.
However, instantly I realized that it failed to work as the qsub_seq.csh script read the first digit of the input file and delete them all, though my input files have range from 0 till 1064, as given some examples of input files [3].

Any help, how to make qsub_seq.csh read two digits variable?

thank you in advance,
emily

Code:
[1] qsub_seq.csh
#!/bin/csh                                                                                                                                                                                                      
# $1 - code name                                                                                                                                                                                                
# $2 - analysis macro                                                                                                                                                                                           
# $3 - base directory                                                                                                                                                                                           
                                                                                                                                                            
# $4 - sample name                                                                                                                                                                                              
# $5 - starting index                                                                                                                                                                                           
# $6 - last index                                                                                                                                                                                               

rm -rf $4_files
mkdir $4_files
cp $2 $4_files/
cp qsub.sh $4_files/
cp temp $4_files/
cd $4_files
set n = $5
while ( $n <= $6 )
    ls $3/$4/$4_${n}*.root > $4_$2_$n
    ./qsub.sh $1 $2 $4_$2_$n
    @ n++
end
cd ../

Code:
[2] submitjobs.sh
#!/bin/sh                                                                                                                                                                                                       

Start=0
Step=9
Entries=1164

while [ $Start -lt $Entries ]
do
   if [ $Start -ge $Entries ]
   then
      break
   fi

   End=`expr $Start + $Step - 1`

   ./qsub_seq.csh AnalysisMacro analysisMacro.conf /nfs/dust/ DYJetsToLL_M-50_TuneCUETP8M1_13TeV-amcatnloFXFX-pythia8 $Start $End
   echo 'job submitted for ' $Start, $End
   Start=`expr $Start + $Step`
done


Code:
[3] 
--------------
/nfs/dust/emily/DYJetsToLL_M-50_TuneCUETP8M1_13TeV-amcatnloFXFX-pythia8_0.root
/nfs/dust/emily/DYJetsToLL_M-50_TuneCUETP8M1_13TeV-amcatnloFXFX-pythia8_151.root
/nfs/dust/emily/DYJetsToLL_M-50_TuneCUETP8M1_13TeV-amcatnloFXFX-pythia8_299.root
/nfs/dust/emily/DYJetsToLL_M-50_TuneCUETP8M1_13TeV-amcatnloFXFX-pythia8_2.root
/nfs/dust/emily/DYJetsToLL_M-50_TuneCUETP8M1_13TeV-amcatnloFXFX-pythia8_99.root
/nfs/dust/emily/DYJetsToLL_M-50_TuneCUETP8M1_13TeV-amcatnloFXFX-pythia8_9.root

 

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