How to run a command (1000 times) that requires two different types of input files

Question

I have calculated directed modularity by means of DirectedLouvain (https://github.com/nicolasdugue/DirectedLouvain). I am now trying to test the significance of the values o

Answer 1

You can use find to list your files and execute a command on all of them:

find -name '*.ext' -exec ./runThisExecutable '{}' \;

If you have a.ext and b.ext in a directory, this will run ./runThisExecutable a.ext and ./runThisExecutable b.ext.

To test whether it identifies the right files, you can run it without -exec so it only prints the filenames:

find -name '*.ext'
./a.ext
./b.ext