Very similar to Coupling inputs and outputs without shared wildcards, I have assembled a user-specified list of inputs and outputs that are paired: inputs = ["/path/to/input1", "/path/to/input2"] outputs = ["/path/to/output1", "/path/to/output2"] In other words, I have a rule which should process input1 and generate output1, and in parallel the same rule may also process input2 and generate output2. I can try the recommended answer from the linked question, which looks like this, except I have used absolute paths, and remove the ".txt" suffix from the rules: numbers = ['/tmp/1.txt', '/tmp/2.txt', '/tmp/3.txt', '/tmp/4.txt'] letters = ['/tmp/A.txt', '/tmp/B.txt', '/tmp/C.txt', '/tmp/D.txt'] ln = dict(zip(numbers, letters)) rule all: input: expand('{number}', number= numbers), rule out: input: letter= lambda wc: ln[wc.number], output: '{number}' shell: """ echo {input.letter} > {output} """ I have tried touching the inputs /tmp/A.txt, etc., however no matter how I try to arrange it, I get either key exceptions or missing input exceptions. However, if I use relative instead of absolute paths, I can get it to work. Is there any way to get it to work using all absolute paths? Continue reading...
