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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers How to copy particular files from a multiple directories and paste in a new directory? Post 303042512 by rbatte1 on Friday 27th of December 2019 12:15:07 PM
Old 12-27-2019
Okay, I'm sure we can help with that. A few questions for clarity though:-
  • Must the filename in the fastconcatg directory be the prefix of the directory that the source was found in?
  • What do we do for a directory that doesn't have a file of that name in it? We could leave an empty marker file, miss it completely or perhaps something else.

If your source files would be found be the command ls -l org*/dnaG.fasta then that's good. The problem about so many files is that you might exceed the command line length, but we can work on that if it become a problem.

For every directory/file found, the logic could be something like:-
  • Get the directory part
  • Get the number from the directory part
  • Copy the file to the target directory with the source directory number as a prefix

Does that match your need or have I missed the point?

Do you have any further attempts yourself that we can work through?



Kind regards,
Robin
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