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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Read file from input and redirect to output file Post 302845443 by rohit_shinez on Wednesday 21st of August 2013 02:03:23 PM
Old 08-21-2013
Read file from input and redirect to output file
Hi ,

i am having an file which contains 5 file_name data, i need to read the file name and will perform certain operation and generate out file names with named as 5 individual file_names
for eg:
Code:
file.txt contains
file_name1.txt|hai
file_name2.txt|bye
file_name3.txt|how
file_name4.txt|are
file_name5.txt|you

i will read using 
for i in `cat file.txt`
and do certain operations like

sed '$d' file_name1.txt >file_name1.tmp
echo "read the second row from file.txt">>file_name1.tmp
mv file_name1.tmp file_name1.txt

like the above i need to perform for all files and my output files should be
file_name1.txt
.
.
.
.
last line to print hai

file_name2.txt
.
.
.
bye

like this i need 5 individual files

 

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XCLIP-COPYFILE(1)					      General Commands Manual						 XCLIP-COPYFILE(1)

NAME

       xclip-copyfile, xclip-cutfile, xclip-pastefile - copy and move files via the X clipboard

SYNOPSIS

       xclip-copyfile [-p] FILES...

       xclip-cutfile [-p] FILES...

       xclip-pastefile

DESCRIPTION

       xclip-copyfile copies files into the X clipboard, recursing into directories.

       xclip-cutfile copies the files, but also deletes them afterwards.

       -p     preserve path formation

       xclip-pastefile pastes the files out of the clipboard

EXAMPLES

       Copying a file to a remote host

       [maggie.lkpg.cendio.se ~]$ echo "A file created on ${HOSTNAME}" > file1
       [maggie.lkpg.cendio.se ~]$ xclip-copyfile file1
       [sofie.homeip.net ~/doc]$ xclip-pastefile
       file1
       [sofie.homeip.net ~/doc]$ cat file1
       A file created on maggie.lkpg.cendio.se

       Copying an entire tree structure

       [sofie.homeip.net ~]$ xclip-copyfile doc
       [maggie.lkpg.cendio.se ~/tmp]$ xclip-pastefile
       doc/
       doc/letter-mom-april.txt
       doc/file1
       doc/letter-dad-march.txt

       Copying files with preserved path information

       [maggie.lkpg.cendio.se ~]$ xclip-copyfile -p /etc/sysconfig/grub
       tar: Removing leading `/' from member names
       [sofie.homeip.net ~/tmp]$ xclip-pastefile
       etc/sysconfig/grub
       [sofie.homeip.net ~/tmp]$ ls etc/sysconfig/grub
       etc/sysconfig/grub

       Moving files

       [sofie.homeip.net ~]$ ls letter-brother-may.txt
       letter-brother-may.txt
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       [sofie.homeip.net ~]$ ls letter-brother-may.txt
       ls: cannot access letter-brother-may.txt: No such file or directory
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       [sofie.homeip.net ~/doc]$ xclip-pastefile
       letter-brother-may.txt

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