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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Combination awk and rename Post 302844159 by Corona688 on Friday 16th of August 2013 05:27:27 PM
Old 08-16-2013
I think you can do something lke
Code:
awk '/Sample ID/ { print "echo mv test.pdf "$3".pdf"); }' sampleid.txt | sh

Remove the echo once you're sure it does what you want.
 

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XFIG-PDF-VIEWER(1)						Debian Users Manual						XFIG-PDF-VIEWER(1)

NAME

       xfig-pdf-viewer - view a PDF document using a PDF browser under X11

SYNOPSIS

       xfig-pdf-viewer file.pdf

DESCRIPTION

       xfig-pdf-viewer is a little shell script, which tries to find out which PDF viewers you have installed on your system and then starts them.
       xfig-pdf-viewer tries the following PDF viewers with descending priority:

       -  xpdf(1)

       -  kpdf(1)

       -  evince(1)

       -  acroread(1)

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AUTHOR

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       xpdf(1), kpdf(1), evince(1), acroread(1), gpdf(1), gv(1), gnome-gv(1), kghostview(1), ghostview(1)

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