Way for putting as filename the first line of the file

[chariko]

I have 1200 fasta file which are named x*. Does anybody know how to change the name of the file so that the new name is the first name of the file itself?

Example
xcv.txt which has written:

>contig1
CGGGTCCC

I want the xcv file to be renamed as contig1

and so on for the 1200 fasta files...

Thanks

[GenoMax]

WARNING: Please make sure you have a copy of the files in a secure location before using the script below. If something goes wrong then you could lose a lot of data. Test with a small subset of files first.

1. Grab a list of file names you want to convert into a file (example below assumes file names end in .fq).

$ ls -1 x*.fq > filelist

2. Put the following code in a file in the same directory with filelist/rest of the files. (this script will take whatever is in ID line and use it as a file name, would be best to ensure that there are no spaces or other strange characters in the fasta ID line).

for file in `cat ./filelist` 
do
# Avoid renaming diretories!
if [ -f "$file" ]
then
newname=`head -1 $file | cut -d">" -f2`
if [ -f "$newname" ]
then
echo "Cannot rename $file to $newname - file already exists"
else
cp "$file" "$newname"."fq"
fi
fi
done

In this example I am copying the files so the original stays intact (bold highlight) and am using the same file extension (you could replace the extension with something else, if you want).

You can use "mv" instead of "cp" once you are sure script works to rename the files.

There must be several other ways of doing this. This is just one of them

Modified using code found here: https://gist.github.com/dylan-k/6531959

[GenoMax]

One-line variation. WARNING in my previous post still applies.

$ for f in *.fq; do echo mv "$f" "`head -1 $f|cut -d">" -f2`.fq"; done

Note 1: If the commands look correct then you can remove the word "echo" to actually do the conversion.

Note 2: If you do not want to rename then "cp" can be substituted for "mv" retaining a copy of the original files.

[chariko]

Originally Posted by GenoMax

WARNING: Please make sure you have a copy of the files in a secure location before using the script below. If something goes wrong then you could lose a lot of data. Test with a small subset of files first.

1. Grab a list of file names you want to convert into a file (example below assumes file names end in .fq).

$ ls -1 x*.fq > filelist

2. Put the following code in a file in the same directory with filelist/rest of the files. (this script will take whatever is in ID line and use it as a file name, would be best to ensure that there are no spaces or other strange characters in the fasta ID line).

for file in `cat ./filelist` 
do
# Avoid renaming diretories!
if [ -f "$file" ]
then
newname=`head -1 $file | cut -d">" -f2`
if [ -f "$newname" ]
then
echo "Cannot rename $file to $newname - file already exists"
else
cp "$file" "$newname"."fq"
fi
fi
done

In this example I am copying the files so the original stays intact (bold highlight) and am using the same file extension (you could replace the extension with something else, if you want).

You can use "mv" instead of "cp" once you are sure script works to rename the files.

There must be several other ways of doing this. This is just one of them

Modified using code found here: https://gist.github.com/dylan-k/6531959

Thank you very much!! it worked perfect!!