Finding Files¶
It’s a frequent problem that you want to be able to access files on different instruments, where the absolute path to the file might be in a different location. To get around this we define the exp_type (experiment type), which points to the location where a particular type of experiment is stored. The exp_type should have the following characteristics:
It should be unique (in a case-insensitive way)
It should be the name of the last one to three (separated by a forward slash) directories/folders where you have a particular type of experiment stored
The name of the folders referred to in exp_type should match on the server (google drive, ftp, etc) where the files are stored and on your local computer.
We provide the command XXXX. You supply this with a csv file containing two columns:
exp_type
file name
Of the files that you want. It will then run rclone to copy all those files to your local computer.