Re: Scripting names from a file

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>
> Lets say for example I have a text file with one name on each line and I need
> to create files based on the names in that file, If I can use a for loop it
> would be greate, but I don't know how to get each name from the file,
> 

You don't need a script for that. Something simple as:

cat file_with_filenames | xargs touch

will just create those filenames in the file file_with_filenames but
of course they will have zero size. So you have to be more specific on
what you want to do with those file names.


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