I also posted this on macrumors forum, then i realized that this is a more suitable forum for matters like this. I apologize for the username, I was looking at a bag of doritos when it asked me for a username. lol

I need a program (see below for what I've tried) and I think a shell program will work.

I need a program that will read each line and copy a specific JPEG to a folder and rename it sequentially as it copies them. It has to be in the order that the list.txt is in.

I have had some luck with writing a shell script for it.

I have a text file named list.txt
it looks exactly like this when you open it
and the picture that each of these contains is a picture of the letter or number or punctuation.

Code:

b.jpeg
e.jpeg
g.jpeg
i.jpeg
n.jpeg
n.jpeg
i.jpeg
n.jpeg
g.jpeg
spacebar.jpeg
g.jpeg
o.jpeg
d.jpeg
spacebar.jpeg
c.jpeg
r.jpeg
e.jpeg
a.jpeg
t.jpeg
e.jpeg
d.jpeg

the files above write "beginning god created", but I want to do this to a book. or anything else I want.

I have been using these commands

Code:

cp `cat list.txt` new-folder/

This sorta successfully copies the files listed in list.txt but won't copy a file with the same name in the same folder.
The date/time when it was copied to the folder on each file isn't accurate because of the duplicate file name issue.
Since I am only using pictures of the 26 letters and 10 numbers and punctuation of the alphabet, I will obviously be running into the duplicate file name issue, I will be copying the same files many times over depending on the text in list.txt
So I figure that I need to rename them as they are pasted in the new folder.

So I use this to rename them.

Code:

find . -name '*.jpeg' \
| awk 'BEGIN{ a=0 }{ printf "mv %s %04d.jpeg\n", $0, a++ }' \
| bash

This successfully renames the original JPEG's, but in the wrong folder and I need the ones copied to be renamed, not the source JPEG's

and finally this piece to somehow combine them

Code:

cat [filename] | while read line; do [command] "$line"; done

Ive tried all kinds of mutations to get it to work and it looks something like this

Code:

cd Desktop/test
cp `cat list.txt` new-folder/ | while read line; do find . -name '*.jpeg' | awk 'BEGIN{ a=0 }{ printf "mv %s %04d.jpeg\n", $0, a++ }' | bash "$line"; done

what am i missing? and doing wrong? I also need to to wait for each JPEG to be copied and renamed before going to the next line in list.txt
I need the files copied and renamed in order. If you help me, treat me stupid when it comes to programming, because I am pretty much clueless.