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Can I get AddOrReplaceReadGroups working for multiple files?

I have a dataset of 81 samples that are missing read group information. This leads to problems when trying to use GATK commands. I've found picard tools' AddOrReplaceReadGroups to be a helpful tool for adding read group to a SAM file. But I'm having trouble trying to loop through this command for all my files.

I've been able to come up with this, but there seems to be an issue with my notation in my variables;

while read f1
do 
  FileName=$(echo $f1 | cut -d"," -f1)
  SampleID=$(echo $f1 | cut -d"," -f3)
  RowNum=$(grep -n $FileName.bam)
  java -jar picard.jar AddOrReplaceReadGroups \
     I=$FileName.bam \
     O=$FileName"_sort.bam" \
     SORT_ORDER=coordinate \
     RGID=$SampleID \
     RGLB=WGS \
     RGPL=illumina \
     RGPU=$RowNum \
     RGSM=$FileName
done < file_with_sample_information.csv

Note: the input file file_with_sample_information.csv has 4 columns, the 1st has the sample name and the 3rd has the database (ENA) ascension number.

How can I get this too work? I'd like to avoid manually doing this for 81 files.

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updated by Barry Digby Barry Digby • written by James Reeve James Reeve 
grep -n $FileName.bam

will not produce anything. You're grepping stdin

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written by Pierre Lindenbaum Pierre Lindenbaum

1 answer 

while read a b c d; do 
...
...
done < file_with_sample_information.csv

$a is column 1, $b is column 2 and so on.

Just separate a b c d with a space.

Is it trouble assigning variables to filenames? or trouble assigning multiple variables (a, b, c, d)..? Show me the first line of your file

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written by Barry Digby Barry Digby

I was trying to assign multiple variables. I figured it out from your example, thanks.

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written by James Reeve James Reeve

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