Have a list of bam files but Picard updated their versions from v1 to v17 ? This script will update all your v* numbers for you.

PS: don't hate Lua. :-)

git-svn-id: file:///humgen/gsa-scr1/gsa-engineering/svn_contents/trunk@5857 348d0f76-0448-11de-a6fe-93d51630548a

lua/updateSampleList.lua

@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+function latestVersion(sample)
+  local version = tonumber(sample:match("/v(%d+)/"))
+  f = io.open(sample)
+  while (f == nil) do
+    version = version + 1
+    sample = sample:gsub("/v(%d+)/", "/v"..version.."/")
+    f = io.open(sample)
+  end
+  return(sample)
+end
+
+for sample in io.lines(arg[1]) do
+  print(latestVersion(sample))
+end