Questions tagged [basename]

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for loop concatenating files that share part of their common basename (paired end sequencing reads)

I'm trying to concatenate a bunch of paired files into one file (for those who work with sequencing data, you'll be familiar with the paired-end read format). For example, I…
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Replacing specific strings in all matching files content with the file's basename using PowerShell

Get-ChildItem 'C:\Users\Zac\Downloads\script test\script test\*.txt' -Recurse | ForEach {(Get-Content $_ | ForEach { $_ -replace '1000', $fileNameOnly}) | Set-Content $_ } I have been trying to use a simple PowerShell script to replace the 1000…
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Basename: extra operand error when on linux command

I tried to create a loop to get all the filenames and fileID. Here are the…
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find -exec with subcommand

I am currently working on a script, that shall set the titles of all found MKV/MKA/MKS files to their basename for example: /path/to/the/file/this is a cool title.mkv Should be automatically edited with mkvpropedit and the title shall be set to…
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Extracting basename from a a string with mixed slashes

I am trying to extract the basename abcd.txt from the following, which I am getting from a join operation performed on a list : path = "my/python/is/working" list = ["abcd","efgh","ijkl"] path_of_each_file = [path + "\\" + x for x in…
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basename the contents of a file

I've got a file that contains a list of file paths. I'd like to apply basename to the contents of the file. File contents look like…
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(Shell) Create a recursive function which return the basename of files, preserving hirarchy

Currently, I have the following: #!/bin/sh pathlink() { for file in "$@"; do if [ -d "$file" ]; then # echo "$file" pathlink "$file/*" else echo '/home/buddhilw/dotfiles/'$(basename $file) # ln -nfs…
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How to convert images with negative number as a name to animation/video?

I create animation ( gif) or video from a sequence of static images. Images have real number as a name, for example -1.000.pgm When numbers are positive ( without minus sign) then it works #!/bin/bash # script file for BASH # which bash #…
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Using Sed to Parse Base Filename into Replacement Argument

Working within a directory of two thousand plus of text files, I need to replace a certain string in each of those text files from "template.cmp" into "actualfilename". For example, for a file like mdgen.cmp, I need the original string of…
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Powershell - How to prefix filename into folder for any path containing that file type

Powershell script needed to pull the file basename from a file type within time and date stamped folders on a directory and append those folders with that base name. The script below works to replace the path name below but I need to prefix the…
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Why is basename in this shell script necessary?

I found this shell script($1,$2 are directories): mv "$2" "$1" || exit # Make $2 a subdirectory of $1 cd "$1/$(basename "$2")" || exit # Change directories for simplicity for f in *; do mv "$f" "${f%.*}.txt" # Add…
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Using basename and absolute path inside a for loop at the same time

Let's say I have for i in `ls -1 /home/samples/*_1.fq.gz | sed 's/_1.fq.gz//'` do bbduk.sh -Xmx1g in1=$i\_1.fq.gz in2=$i\_2.fq.gz out1=/home/output/BASENAME\_clean_1.fq.gz out2=/home/output/BASENAME\_clean_2.fq.gz…
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bash: how to list a leaf directory in the unknown path?

I have multiple directories that in turn contain subdirectories. Example: company_a/raw/2020/12 The value of the first directory (company_a in the sample above) is variable, but always with a pattern "word_letter" The value of the second directory…
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PHP: basename not working as expected on special character

Here's my code: $url = "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/…_und_wenn_der_letzte_Reifen_platzt"; $base = basename($url); echo $base . "
"; $url2 = urlencode($base); echo $url2 . "
"; $url = dirname($url) . "/" . $url2; echo $url; $aHeader =…
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Powershell - Need help putting grouping files into Hash Table based on partial matching names

I'm trying to put PDF files into a Hash Table Group based on the file names which use different naming conventions. The first set of files follows the following format: 0343453 - SHORT NAME.pdf 0325423 - MEDIUM NAME.pdf 0323546 - A VERY LONG…
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