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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Bash to copy file 3 times and rename based on another file Post 302992167 by rbatte1 on Wednesday 22nd of February 2017 09:42:41 AM
Old 02-22-2017
You might be better with something like this:-
Code:
LinesToSkip=2
((StartLine=$LinesToSkip+1))

files=($(cat /home/cmccabe/Desktop/list/QC/metrics.txt ))

i=1

while read -r new_name
do
   mv "${files[$i]}" "$new_name"
   ((i=$i+1))
done < <(sed -n "${StartLine},\$p" /home/cmccabe/Desktop/test/list.txt

It uses sed to get the whole file from after the LinesToSkip value. It also assumes that your list of files to rename is a white-space and/or row separated input file.

You may prefer to increment the counter in a different way, but the principle is the same.


I hope that this helps,
Robin
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