Running a script with all files in a folder

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

Hi

I have many files in a folder (like 200) and I want to run a Perl script through all of them. One way would be to do it one by one (which will take forever). But I am sure there is a faster way of doing it.

So inside the folder i have files named in no particular way

eg.
YUI456
YAR234
etc.
etc.

So the perl scrip i am running is like this

perl get-feature.pl rr FILENAME gg OTHERMATCHFILE

the "OTHERMATCHFILE" is the file taht i want to match with all the files inside the folder.

thanks

2 
perl filename.pl *
  • will be expanded by shell with all the filenames in that directoy.
3

Hi I am having some problems with only using the *

I found an alternative solution but there are some errors.

find ./ -name '*' -exec sh -c 'perl.pl -rr  -ff MATCHFILENAME {} \> {}.txt' \;

basically I want to run each file in the folder through this script then spit out the output file with the .txt ending

4

...and it would've been helpful if you'd have said so in your original post...

Try something like this:

ls * | grep -v 'txt$' | while read file
do
    perl.pl -rr -ff $file > $file.txt
done