How to run a command (1000 times) that requires two different types of input files

Question

I have calculated directed modularity by means of DirectedLouvain (https://github.com/nicolasdugue/DirectedLouvain). I am now trying to test the significance of the values o

Answer 1

1. Find all files with that extension.
2. For each file
   1. Extract the filename without exntesion
   2. Run the command

So:

find -type f -name '*.ext' |
while IFS= read -r file; do
   file_no_extension=${file##*/};
   file_no_extension=${file_no_extension%%.*}
   ./convert -i "$file" -o "$file_no_extension".bin -w "$file_no_extension".weights
done

// with find:
find -type f -name '*.ext' -exec sh -c 'f=$(basename "$1" .ext); ./convert -i "$1" -o "$f".bin -w "$f".weights' _ {} \;

// with xargs:
find -type f -name '*.ext' |
xargs -d '\n' -n1 sh -c 'f=$(basename "$1" .ext); ./convert -i "$1" -o "$f".bin -w "$f".weights' _