Hi - you can just write a shell script to amend each design.fsf before calling feat.  Find the variables in the design.fsf that you want to change and either change their settings with "sed" (etc) or just re-write those lines with the new settings at the end of the design.fsf file - as it is the last time a variable is set that matters.

Cheers.




On 1 Apr 2010, at 06:10, R. Matthew Hutchison wrote:

Hi all,

I was wondering if there is a way to modify the .fsf file for each subject in the batch script?

To clarify, I want to batch run multiple subjects, however each will have different EV's (unique roi timecourses) though the processing steps will be the same.

In a post yesterday, Cornelius Werner outlined the basic premise to scripting feat :
1) create a first-level design file (eg., exp1.fsf) using the GUI
2) run something like "for i in $Subjects; do feat exp1.fsf -D $i.feat; done"

This works if your paradigm is the same across all subjects, but how do I change the exp1.fsf file for each subject?
Is there a way I can override the Custom EV file (EV 1) in the fsf file or change the directories between each subject?

Thanks for any advice, I am very new to this,

Matt

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