The cleanest way is to create a small script. Let us first define some variables and set up a basic loop. You should always write scripts in a way that they work regardless from where they are called. On the commandline you can use relative paths like cd .., but in scripts you should always use absolute paths:

Code:

#! /bin/sh

pFileList="/path/to/file/filelist"
pSrcDir="/cluster/home/input"
pTgtDir="/cluster/home/bad"
pFile=""

while read pFile ; do
     echo mv "${pSrcDir}/${pFile}" "${pTgtDir}"
done < "${pFileList}"

exit 0

Now look at the output: are there error messages? (If yes: which ones?) You should see a list similar to the following, with "first_file", etc. replaced by the files in your file "filelist":

Code:

mv /cluster/home/input/first_file /cluster/home/bad
mv /cluster/home/input/second_file /cluster/home/bad
mv /cluster/home/input/third_file /cluster/home/bad
...

Carefully check the list of these commands if they indeed would do what you want to do. If sure, remove the "echo" from the beginning of the line and let it run again.

If you have to do that regularly and not only once you might want to refine the script a bit (replace "<spc>" and "<tab>" with literal tab/space characters when you use this):

Code:

#! /bin/sh

pFileList="/path/to/file/filelist"
pSrcDir="/cluster/home/input"
pTgtDir="/cluster/home/bad"
pFile=""

sed 's/#.*//;s/^[<spc><tab>]*//;s/[<spc><tab>]*$//;/^$/d' "${pFileList}" |\
while read pFile ; do
     if [ ! -f "${pSrcDir}/${pFile}" ] ; then
          echo "ERROR: File ${pFile} not found."
     else
          mv "${pSrcDir}/${pFile}" "${pTgtDir}"
     fi
done

exit 0

Now the script reports possible errors if you mention a file in "filelist" but it isn't there. Further, in your filelist you can use "#" and write commentaries after that. Leading/trailing whitespace and empty lines are ignored. A "filelist" file could look like:

Code:

# this is the file list for june

first_file     # per request of Alan
second_file  # per request of Bill

# these files get also moved:
       third_file
       fourth_file

I hope this helps.

bakunin