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I have a script in bash that transfer csv files to a python program from 2 differents directories like so :

#!/bin/bash
DIR1=/a/directory
DIR2=/another/directory

for f in DIR1
do
    /direc/to/python3.7 /dir/scriptspython/.py $DIR1/$f
done

for n in DIR2
do
    /direc/to/python3.7 /dir/scriptspython/.py $DIR2/$f
done

The problem is that i'd like the files from the directories to load one after the other like so : $DIR1/$f(1) then $DIR2/$n(1)...$DIR1/$f(x) then DIR2/$n(x)

My problem looks similar to this thread but with directories instead of files

Rui F Ribeiro
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  • Please clarify: Are DIR1 and DIR2 already populated with CSV files you wish to send to your Python script as parameters, or is the Python script creating CSV files you wish to place into DIR1 and DIR2? – DopeGhoti Feb 12 '19 at 15:49
  • DIR1 and DIR2 are already populated with CSV files, I specify to the python script the path – Fresh_and_innocent_sysadmin Feb 12 '19 at 15:56

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So, I assume you have files like this

aa/apple aa/orange aa/perry  bb/apple bb/orange bb/perry

We could use aa/* and bb/* to list the files in both directories, then save them in two arrays, and loop over those: 

#!/bin/bash
files1=(aa/*)
files2=(bb/*)
for (( i=0; i < ${#files1[@]}; i++)); do
    echo "${files1[i]}"
    echo "${files2[i]}"
done

That would output them in the order aa/apple, bb/apple, aa/orange, etc. The sort order is the default lexicographic sort. The above takes the file count from the first list, so it basically assumes there is an equal number of files in both directories.

(I'm not sure how much sense any of this makes if the lists of filenames aren't equal in the two directories.)

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