Re: Scripting names from a file

[Stuart Sears <stuart@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue 28 September 2004 18:59, Patrick McSwiggen wrote:
> cat file_with_names | while read line ; do
> mv "$line" /dest/dir
> done
or, removing the 'spurious cat'...

while read filename; do 
mv $filename /dest/dir; 
done < file_with_filenames_in_it

:-)

Stuart

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