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There is (at least) one syntax error in your script. Look at the following, quoted from your post:


#[localuser@localhost ~]$ cat wk7.sh
!/bin/bash
#Read tabc.txt
tabc="cat tabc.txt"...

Try this:

sed -e 's/^\([^ ]*\) *\([^ ]*\) *\([^ ]*\) *\([^ ]*\) *\([^ ]*\)/1stString (\1) 2ndWord (\2) 3rdWord (\3) 4thWord (\4) 5thWord (\5)/'

For files with spaces in their name...

There are several approaches possible. This way you can leave out the cat-command. Try this:

while read LINE; do touch $LINE; done < extract.filenames.tabc