On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 8:19 AM, <deltaquat...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to automate the following task under Linux. I need to create a > set of directories such as > > 075 > 095 > 100 > 125 > > The directory names may be read from a text file foobar, which also contains > a number corresponding to each dir, like this: > > 075 1.818 > 095 2.181 > 100 2.579 > 125 3.019 > > > In each directory I must copy a text file input.in. This file contains two > lines which need to be edited: > > . > . > . > foo = 1.5 !edit me.. > . > . > . > bar = 1.5 !..and me, too > . > . > > The number after the "=" must be set to the value given in foobar for the > corresponding directory > I thought to write a bash/awk shell script for this. However, if and when the > script works, I'll probably start to add more features in order to automate > even more tasks. It seems to me that Python or perl would be better suited to > write a larger, mantainable script. Unfortunately, I know neither of them. > Could you show me how to write the script in Python? Thanks,
Your script would use the following modules: http://docs.python.org/library/shutil.html http://docs.python.org/library/os.path.html Cheers, Chris -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
