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Trying to write a script to rename files in directories to include directory name

Hi all,

I have a "main" directory containing many sub-directories that are all named like "FirstName_SecondName" (they are scientific names of animals with genus_species). In each of these directories there is a file called estscan_pep.fasta. I would like to copy each of the estscan_pep.fasta files to the "main" directory but replace the "estscan" part with the "FirstName_SecondName" part from the name of the folder in came from. I believe find and xargs are the tools for the job but I can't figure out the syntax. Could anyone give me some suggestions to get me started?

Thanks!
Kevin

If the estscan_pep.fasta files are all at first level below the current directory, you can try something like this:

Code:

while read file; do echo cp -p $file ${file%/*}_pep.fasta; done < <(find . -type f -name estscan_pep.fasta)

this will print out the commands to execute. If they satisfy your requirement, remove the echo statement and run again.

Sorry for the delay in replying. That's perfect. I had played with something like this but I had the syntax for "${file%/*}" all wrong.

Thanks!
Kevin