[pmiguel]

Originally Posted by ungsik

Refer to https://unix.stackexchange.com/quest...ck-of-variable

An example for changing extension from fastq.sam.bam to txt.

for file in *.fastq.sam.bam
do
mv ${file%.fastq.sam.bam} ${file%.fastq.sam.bam}.txt
done

Don't you mean:

for file in *.fastq.sam.bam
do
mv $file ${file%.fastq.sam.bam}.txt
done

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Phillip