Re: Executing series of commands for each entry in text file

From: Chris F.A. Johnson (cfajohnson_at_gmail.com)
Date: 07/27/04 

Date: 27 Jul 2004 09:31:14 GMT

On 2004-07-27, Joerg Loosen wrote:
> Hi there!
>
> I have a text file containing several entries like so:
>
> adam
> brian
> chuck
> ...
>
> There is one word per line. Now I would like to execute a series of unix
> commands for each entry like so:
>
> touch <entry>.txt
> move <entry>.txt <dir>
> ...
>
> with <entry> being replaced by the contents of the text file, e.g.:
> first 'adam' then 'brian' and so on. I could write a perl script but I
> was wondering if there was a simple "shell-only" solution. Btw my
> current shell is bash.

while IFS= read -r line
do
  touch "$line.txt"
  move "$line.txt" "$dir"
done < TEXTFILE 

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