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bash for loop with two type of files

Hello, everyone!

I have two types of files ".seq" and ".param". One has sequence info (obviously) and the other has parameters for PRIMER3.

I have about 100 files with those extensions.

For example,

File1.seq   File1.param
File2.seq   File2.param
File3.seq   File3.param
File4.seq   File4.param
File5.seq   File5.param

I was trying to concatenate files with the same name using 'for loop' and 'cat', but it didn't seem to work. The code I was going to try

for I in ./*.seq ./*.param
do cat $i   # I'm stuck here. I don't think $i can take both files.

Is there a way to load two variables in a single loop, or am I doing completely wrong?

Thank you!

for-loop bash
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updated by Ram Ram • written by mbk0asis mbk0asis

2 answers

One way is to get basename for one file and then append extension, e.g.

for F in *.seq, do N=$(basename "$F" .seq); cat $F "$N".param > "$N".out; done
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updated by Ram Ram • written by 5heikki 5heikki

In a bash script you may also use variable modifiers:

for f in ./*.seq; do
  echo ${f%.*} 
  echo ${f%.*}.seq
  echo ${f%.*}.param
done
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updated by Ram Ram • written by piet piet

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