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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Rename file using partial match to another Post 303040188 by Chubler_XL on Thursday 24th of October 2019 04:00:45 PM
Old 10-24-2019
Quote:
Originally Posted by cmccabe
Looks like the last file in the directory is getting renamed with both matching not the unique. Is another loop needed or all the values on one line instead of separate? Thank you Smilie.
What do you want to happen here? f1 requires that IonCode_0404 in directory *127* be renamed to both 10-0000-aa-aa-aa and 00-0000-xxx-xxx-xxx. Is this a mistake in the data file or how should the script handle this?

Quote:
Originally Posted by cmccabe
desired
Code:
11-1111-yy-yy-yyy_test.bam   ---- this is IonCode_0402_xxx.xxx_xxx ---
11-1111-yy-yy-yyy_test.bam.bai   ---- this is IonCode_0402_xxx.xxx_xxx ---
00-0000-xxx-xxx-xxx_test.bam   ---- this is IonCode_0404_xxx.xxx_xxx ---
00-0000-xxx-xxx-xxx_test.bam.bai ---- this is IonCode_0404_xxx.xxx_xxx ---

Change the newname assignment to this newname=${file/$from*.bam/${to}_test.bam}

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