Hi everyone,

I have 100 folders and in each folder i have multiple files as below (Prefix Aardvark change from folder to folder):

Aardvark_GENES_D.fa.1

Aardvark_GENES_D.fa.2

Aardvark_GENES_D.fa.3

Aardvark_GENES_D.fa.4

Aardvark_GENES_D.fa.5

I want to rename them by removing the last extension and replacing GENES with following name the order of name will remain the same for each folder as below:

Aardvark_ACMSD_D.fa

Aardvark_ARID1B_D.fa

Aardvark_CRYM_D.fa

Aardvark_SMO_D.fa

Aardvark_Tlx3_D.fa

I'm using following code it works well for Aardvark bt not for other folder in which prefix contains multiple words e.g for African_savana_elephant it adds Genes name after african jst like below:

African_ACMSD_Savana

African_ARID1B_Savana

African_CRYM_Savana

African_SMO_Savana

where it shoud be like below: African_savana_elephant_ACMSD_D.fa African_savana_elephant_ARID1B_D.fa African_savana_elephant_SMO_D.fa

Code:

paste  <(ls  *.fa.* | sort -t '.' -k3,3n ) list.txt  | awk  '{split($1,a,/_/); printf("mv %s %s_%s_%s\n",$1,a[1],$2,a[3]);}'  | sed 's/\.[0-9]*$//' mv Aardvark_GENES_D.fa.1 Aardvark_ACMSD_D.fa mv Aardvark_GENES_D.fa.2 Aardvark_ARID1B_D.fa mv Aardvark_GENES_D.fa.3 Aardvark_CRYM_D.fa mv Aardvark_GENES_D.fa.4 Aardvark_SMO_D.fa

I'm nwe in perl World Kindly guide me how to edit the above expression for my desired results??????

In reply to Rename multiple files by removing last extension and editing string by Anonymous Monk

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