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Old 03-29-2019
Quote:
Originally Posted by cmccabe
The bash below executes and does find all the .bam files in each R_2019 folder. However set -x shows that the .bam extension only gets removed from one .bam file in each folder (appears to be the last in each). Why is it not removing the extension from each (this is $SAMPLE)? Thank you Smilie.

Code:
set -x
DIR=/home/cmccabe/Desktop/f1   ## define data directory path
for RDIR in "$DIR"/R_2019* ; do
      BAM=$(find "$RDIR"/bam -type f -name "*.bam" -printf '%P\n')
       SAMPLE=$(echo $BAM|cut -d. -f1)
echo "$SAMPLE"
done

I think you could spare yourself a lot of hassle (and the system a lot of work) doing it like this:

Code:
for RDIR in "$DIR"/R_2019* ; do
     find "$RDIR"/bam -type f -name "*.bam" -exec /path/to/movescript.sh {} \;
done

where /path/to/movescript.sh would contain

Code:
!# /bin/sh

echo mv "${1}" "${1%.bam}"

exit $?

If you are satisfied with the list of commands remove the "echo" in the script.

I hope this helps.

bakunin
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