renames files with the same folder name

Question

[AbdelAbdel]

Hello, in short, I have folders and in each folder there is a file 'call < configs.fasta > and I wanted to get how I can rename the files with the same folder name. I've tried a for loop but it doesn't work.

 for i in *; do mv /*/contigs.fasta $i.fasta; done

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Thank you for helping me

[lieven.sterck]

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[lieven.sterck]

I understand why you might mask out the path your working in but i'm afraid the cause of your issue is likely caused by what's 'under' the * .

otherwise you can add in a dummy folder but at least we can then see what you try to do.

[AbdelAbdel]

All right, thank you very much for the information.

Answer 1

[cpad0112]

input:

$ find . -maxdepth  2 -mindepth 2  -type f -name "contigs.fa"
./test2/contigs.fa
./test1/contigs.fa

dry-run

$ parallel --dry-run cp {} {//}.fa ::: $(find . -maxdepth  2 -mindepth 2  -type f -name "contigs.fa")
cp ./test2/contigs.fa ./test2.fa
cp ./test1/contigs.fa ./test1.fa

with bash:

tree .
.
├── test1
│   └── contigs.fa
└── test2
    └── contigs.fa

dry-run (remove echo):

$ find . -maxdepth  1 -mindepth 1  -type d | while read line; do echo mv $line/contigs.fasta $i.fasta; done

or

$ for i in $(ls -d */); do echo mv ${i%%/}/contigs.fasta ${i%%/}.fasta; done

mv ./test2/contigs.fasta test2.fasta
mv ./test1/contigs.fasta test2.fasta

[AbdelAbdel]

Thank you very much. I'll try you.