OT -- Scripting names from a file

[HaJo Schatz]

On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 22:36, Chadley Wilson 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,

Usually do things in Perl, but that's a personal taste I guess:

#!/usr/bin/perl
@files = `cat files.txt`;
foreach $file (@files)
{
    chomp $file; # No new-line
    print "$file\n";
}

Or say `touch $file`; instead of print "...";

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