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for file in *done ; do name=`echo $file | sed -e 's/.done//'`; cp $file $name; done 
To put the pid back on for path.info files in *tempcopy* directories and save in pi.save: 
for file in *tempcopy*; do name=`echo $file | sed -e 's/
\..*//'`; 
cp $file/path.info pi.save/path.info.$name ; done 
To split an extractedmin file for N atoms into separate files min_ with numerical values starting from 1 in a field of 5: 
split –numeric=1  -l N -a 5 extractedmin min_ 
To rename the files without leading 0 padding in bash (note double quotes): 
for fname in min_* ; do
    echo $fname 
       newfile="$(echo $fname | sed -e 's/_0*/_/')" 
       echo $newfile 
       mv $fname $newfile
done