[Condor-users] File Transfer Question

["Smith, Herb" <herb.smith@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

I want to submit an executable and a list of input files (they would be generated by a Monte Carlo simulation process).  The input files are numbered sequentially such as 1.in, 2.in, 3.in...etc.   The executable only knows, however, that it is supposed to read a file called input.dat and it produces an output file called output.dat (real original, eh?).   I have been pouring over the manual to determine if there is a way to get it to change the name of the 1.in (and the others..) to input.dat when they are transferred and to change the name of the output.dat file back to a corresponding output file named 1.out when it is transferred back.  The manual seems to imply that the name of the file can be set using the file transfer commands, but I don't see any specifics on how to do that.  I may just be misunderstanding it.

It seems at this point that I might need to write a batch script to do the file name changes on the pool machine and run the executable.  Is that the cleanest way to do this?

Thanks in advance,

Herb