Reading a file from a different directory in a Bash script

Hi all,

Given here under a section of a script I am using.

SIMDIR="/home/Ins/forces"
cd $SIMDIR

for file in `ls *.forces`

do 

basename=`echo $file | sed 's/\.[^.]*$//'`
extname=`echo $file | sed 's/[^0-9]*\([0-9]*\)\.\(.*\)/\2\1/'`

echo "Processing file: "$basename

python convert.py $basename.forces >  $extname.vtk

done

exit 0

As is, the convert.py is in the directory with files *.forces.

I want to read convert.py from a different location (directory) say my home directory i.e $HOME

Thank you for your help.

??

python $HOME/convert.py $basename.forces >  $extname.vtk

Not sure I understood what you want...

Thanks VBE, It worked.

Hello Theo Score,

You need not to mention python in front of python script to execute it if you have put shebang eg--> #!/usr/bin/env python in your python script, so it will know which complier to call.

Thanks,
R. Singh

A simplification

for file in *.forces

Variables in command arguments should be in "quotes" to avoid potential problems with special characters, for example

extname=`echo "$file" | sed 's/[^0-9]*\([0-9]*\)\.\(.*\)/\2\1/'`

echo "Processing file: $basename"

And in the next line, go for
"$basename.forces" or "$basename".forces or "$file" .