ok thx. I will look into it.
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How to match filenames in different directories?(bash or python)
I have a set of files in two directories
~/Desktop/dir1 and ~/Desktop/dir2
I need to match files in dir1 to files in dir2 or vice versa
filenames in /dir1 are: 1.out, 2.out ... 21.out
filenames in /dir2 are: chr-1.out, chr-2.out ... chr-21.out
I wrote a plotting script in python which accepts command line arguments for filenames and does the plotting. So the question is how to match the files and provide it to a script? I tried to use bash, but I cant figure out how to do that. Maybe it is possible to that from python?
I could have done it by hand, but I would rather learn how to do that automatically.
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So, what you're trying to do is called globbing. Check it out here
And, as Istvan Albert and Devon Ryan say, this is a CS question in a bioinformatics forum. Please search stack overflow or Google. A critical skill to all fields that involve CS/IT is knowing what keywords to use with Google (most of what you want solved in IT is solved by someone else already), and that comes with practice.
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This looks rather off-topic. Perhaps you want to edit things about to make it at least vaguely bioinformatics related...
You seem to have given up and accepted fate :)
At least for the moment :)
I do agree with Devon Ryan and I would add that even if your files were bioinformatics data this is a purely bash/os usage question and as such it is probably best suited to StackOverflow.