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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Bash to select and save file in new directory Post 302975763 by cmccabe on Saturday 18th of June 2016 09:27:11 AM
Old 06-18-2016
No, I am just trying to selct one file in the directory and save it in a new directory. You are correct a loop is not needed.

Search directory with files
Code:
file1.txt
file2.txt
file3.txt

file1.txt is selected and saved in the new directory (/home/cmccabe/Desktop/NGS/panels/reads/)

So do I just need to read that selection into a variable and pass that to the new directory, or is there a better way? Thank you Smilie.

Maybe:
Code:
# select file
printf "please select a file to analyze with entered gene or genes  \n"
select file in $(cd /home/cmccabe/Desktop/NGS/API/test/bedtools;ls);do break;done
            echo $file "will be used to filter reads, identify target bases and genes less than 20 and 30 reads, create a low coverage bed for vizulization, and calculate 20x and 30x coverage for the entered gene(s)"
logfile=/home/cmccabe/Desktop/NGS/API/test/process.log
for file in /home/cmccabe/Desktop/NGS/API/test/bedtools/$file; do
     echo "Start selcted file creation: Date: $(date) - File: $file"
     bname=$(basename $file)
     pref=${bname%%.txt}
     mv "$file" /home/cmccabe/Desktop/NGS/panels/reads/${pref}_OTHER.txt
     echo "End selected file creation: $(date) - File: $file"
done >> "$logfile"

error
Code:
file1.txt will be used to filter reads, identify target bases and genes less than 20 and 30 reads, create a low coverage bed for visualization, and calculate 20x and 30x coverage for the entered gene(s)
mv: cannot move ‘/home/cmccabe/Desktop/NGS/API/test/bedtools/file1.txt’ to ‘/home/cmccabe/Desktop/NGS/panels/reads/file1_OTHER.txt’: No such file or directory


Last edited by cmccabe; 06-18-2016 at 10:39 AM.. Reason: edited bash
 

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