On Tuesday 28 September 2004 16:41, Filippos Klironomos wrote: > > 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. OK Maybe I am trying to be too clever in my simplification of the senario, so maybe this helps: I have a directory with files in it, I also have a text file with a list of certian files, I need to mv the files listed in the text files out of the dir into a new dir which I have created. Does that make more sense? So basically I am after something like this for i in `each_name_in_file ` ; do mv $1 /dest/dir done The bit I can't workout is `each_name_in_file ` Thanks -- Chadley Wilson Redhat Certified Technician Cert Number: 603004708291270 Pinnacle Micro Manufacturers of Proline Computers ==================================== Exercise freedom, Use LINUX =====================================
