How to rename a file based on a directory name?

Question

I have a lot of FASTA files that I recently scaffolded with RagTag. The output of RagTag includes a directory for each sample and the corresponding FASTA file written as "ragtag.scaffold.fasta"

I would like to go through each file and rename it like so:

Original Path with File name:
directoryName_ID/ragtag.scaffold.fasta

Changed File name:
directoryName_ID/ID_ragtag.scaffold.fasta

As you can see, the directory name includes the ID number I would like to use to rename the fasta file with (along with an underscore to space it out). Is there a way to loop through all of the directories, using that last number after the "_" in the directory name and to use that to rename my fasta file?

Here is what I have tried so far:

for filename in ./directory*/ragtag.scaffold.fasta; do 
    mv filename ${./directory%*_*}_ragtag.scaffold.fasta; 
done

It doesn't work at all but I know I need to use mv to rename the filename. However, when it comes to referencing the directory name the file is located in I get lost. I also have a .txt file that contains a list of IDs if that might be easier to reference. I'm still kinda new to the command line so if anyone could help that would be greatly appreciated!

Answer 1

Just execute the following immediately above the directories of interest, (post edited to include OPs "constant term")

for d in *; do 
  mv "$d"/ragtag.scaffold.fasta 
 "$d/${d/000mergedCluster_/}_ragtag.scaffold.fasta";
done

The key thing I assumed is that the directory name comprises a "constant term" and is suffixed by a "variable term".

Just to note the $d here is directory not file name - because that is constant in each directory.

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Comments...

$d/${d/000mergedCluster_/}

The key part of the code is above.

What its doing is saying from the variable $d delete the term 000mergedCluster_ (or whatever the "constant term" is)

Answer 2

Assuming the output is only a list of directories and each directory includes a file called "ragtag.scaffold.fasta", you could use brace expansion to generate the SOURCE and DEST strings:

for i in directoryName_* ; do
    echo mv "${i}"/{,"${i#directoryName_}"_}ragtag.scaffold.fasta
done

But the above will only work using Bash and Zsh, and maybe some other shells. Without Bash/Zsh, just use:

fasta="ragtag.scaffold.fasta"
for i in directoryName_* ; do
    echo mv "${i}/${fasta}" "${i}/${i#directoryName_}_${fasta}"
done

Remove the echo to perform the rename.

Answer 3

If you want to use Perl:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use 5.030;
use warnings;

use File::Find::Rule qw( );

for my $file (File::Find::Rule->name("ragtag.scaffold.fasta")->in(".")){
  my $newfile = $file;
  $newfile =~ s{(.+_(\d+)/)(.+.fasta)}{$1$2_$3};

  if (-e $newfile) {
    warn "can't rename $file to $newfile: $newfile exists\n";
  }elsif (rename $file, $newfile) {
    # do nothing
  }else{
    warn "rename $file to $newfile failed: $!\n";
  }
}

Answer 4

Perl one-liner:

ls */filename | perl -lane 'print "mv $1/$3 $1/$2_$3" if /(\S+_([^\/_\s]+))\/(\S+)/'