UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers

printf -- "/path/to/xxx.py \\\\\n%s\n\t--ref /path/to/file \\\\\n\t--run /path/to/data\n" \                       # Set up the output format with fixed strings and an assignment for where the data goes
   "$(for bamfile in *.bam; do printf -- "\t\t--bam %s \\\\\n"    "${bamfile}"; done)"                            # Collect & list the data file lines here, tab indenting each with \t and finishing with the formatting to append the \ and the new-line
                                                                                                                  # This will get used in the above line as the input for the data.

/path/to/xxx.py \
		--bam s1.bam \
		--bam s2.bam \
		--bam s3.bam \
		--bam s4.bam \
	--ref /path/to/file \
	--run /path/to/data