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Dear All,
I have a question.
I have similarly named files stored in different directories and I'd like to retreive information from them remotely to perform other tasks. For example given:

Code:

Folder 5 has files S5_SK1.chr01        S5_SK1.chr02         .......
Folder 6 has files S6_SK1.chr01        S6_SK1.chr02         .......
Folder 7 has files S7_SK1.chr01        S7_SK1.chr02         .......
Folder 8 has files S8_SK1.chr01        S8_SK1.chr02         .......

I'd like to concatenate all *chr01 files in different folders as one file , *chr02 files in different folders as one file and so on ...
Can someone suggest how to acheive this sort of task ?
I'll appreciate your feedback
Cheers and hv a nice day

If you are searching in the current working directory:

Code:

 find . -iname *.chr01 | sed "s;^.;`pwd`;"

For concatenation, you don't have to use sed as you don't have to print the full path:

Code:

find . -iname *.chr01 | cat

@Gaurab:

I am not searching in the current working directory for these files ... these Files are located in other directories as I mentioned ...infact in different folders/directories but I want to extract info from them remotely without having to copy or move them all to the working directory ... so lets say I want to concatenate all 4 files present in different folders, and all ending with chr01 but starting with S5 or S6 or S7 or S8 (thats why they are in different folders) is there a way to do that ?
Cheers

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Any ideas on my initial query ??

Can someone suggest me because being a beginner I dont know if its possible to do this with Unix or Perl.

Appreciate your response

Cheers n hv a nice day

The code I posted will work if you just go to the top most directory and run it. It will read through all the sudirectories (the -r option for ls).

Let me know if you still have any trouble.
-G