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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers move a file content to another directory Post 302673525 by balajesuri on Wednesday 18th of July 2012 04:35:12 AM
Old 07-18-2012
In case you really want test.out, then along with zaxxon's first solution, you could use the following to move files to a different directory:

Code:
while IFS='/' read x y; do mv $y /u/user/filemv/; done < test.out

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