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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Rename files based on a list Post 302942436 by Don Cragun on Tuesday 28th of April 2015 04:31:34 PM
Old 04-28-2015
Quote:
Originally Posted by Scrutinizer
Try:
Code:
while IFS='	' read from to
do
  [ -f "$from.bam" ] && mv -- "$from.bam" "$to.bam"
done < list

where the TAB Character can entered as CTRL-V TAB in vi..

Or
Code:
tab=$(printf "\t")
while IFS=$tab read from to
do
  [ -f "$from.bam" ] && mv -- "$from.bam" "$to.bam"
done < list

In bash of ksh you can use $'\t'
Shouldn't the line marked in red above be:
Code:
while IFS="$tab" read from to

?
 

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