How to pass a variable string to a file txt at the biginig of test? - bash

Question

I have a problem
I Have a program general like this gene.sh
that for all file (es file: geneX.csv) make a directory with the name of gene (example: Genex/geneX.csv) next this program compile an other program inside gene.sh but this progrm need a varieble and I dont know how do it.
this is the program gene.sh
#!/bin/bash
# Create a dictory for each file *.xls and *.csv
for fname in *.xlsx *csv
do
dname=${fname%.*}
[[ -d $dname ]] || mkdir "$dname"
mv "$fname" "$dname"
done
# For each gene go inside the directory and compile the programs getChromosomicPositions.sh to have the positions, and getHapolotipeStings.sh to have the variants
for geni in */; do
cd $geni
z=$(tail -n 1 *.csv | tr ';' "\n" | wc -l)
cd ..
cp getChromosomicPositions.sh $geni --->
cp getHaplotypeStrings.sh $geni
cd $geni
export z
./getChromosomicPositions.sh *.csv
export z
./getHaplotypeStrings.sh *.csv
cd ..
done
This is the program getChromosomichPositions.sh:
rm chrPosRs.txt
grep '^Haplotype\ ID' $1 | cut -d ";" -f 4-61 | tr ";" "\n" | awk '{print "select chrom,chromStart,chromEnd,name from snp147 where name=\""$1"\";"}' > listOfQuery.txt
while read l; do
echo $l > query.txt
mysql -h genome-mysql.cse.ucsc.edu -u genome -A -D hg38 --skip-column-names < query.txt > queryResult.txt
if [[ "$(cat queryResult.txt)" == "" ]];
then
cat query.txt |
while read line; do
echo $line | awk '$6 ~/rs/ {print $6}' > temp.txt;
if [[ "$(cat temp.txt)" != "" ]];
then cat temp.txt | awk -F'name="' '{print $2}' | sed -e 's/";//g' > temp.txt;
./getHGSVposHG19.sh temp.txt ---> Hear the problem--->
else
echo $line | awk '{num=sub(/.*:g\./,"");num+=sub(/\".*/,"");if(num==2){print};num=""}' > temp2.txt
fi
done
cat query.txt >> varianti.txt
echo "Missing Data" >> chrPosRs.txt
else
cat queryResult.txt >> chrPosRs.txt
fi
done < listOfQuery.txt
rm query*
hear the problem:
I need to enter in the file temp.txt and put automatically at the beginning of the file the variable $geni of the program gene.sh
How can I do that?

Answer 1

Why not pass "$geni" as say the first argument when invoking your script, and treating the rest of the arguments as your expected .csv files.
./getChromosomicPositions.sh "$geni" *.csv
Alternatively, you can set it as environment variable for the script, so that it can be used there (or just export it).
geni="$geni" ./getChromosomicPositions.sh *.csv
In any case, once you have it available in the second script, you can do
if passed as the first argument:
echo "${1}:$(cat temp.txt | awk -F'name="' '{print $2}' | sed -e 's/";//g')
or if passed as environment variable:
echo "${geni}:$(cat temp.txt | awk -F'name="' '{print $2}' | sed -e 's/";//g')