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 `
for i in `cat file_with_filenames`; do mv $i /dest/dir done
This may break if the filenames have unusual characters in them, like shell metacharacters or spaces.
Paul.
