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Thanks methyl,

you are right. I actually missed the -name parameter when replied.

my OS is Linux.
Linux taiga 2.6.16.60-0.27-smp #1 SMP Mon Jul 28 12:55:32 UTC 2008 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64...

Thanks all,

I managed it. It is simple. first create the list with full paths given a list of filenames as

for i in `cat /path/to/the/filenames.txt`;
do
find...

Thanks Dave,

find: paths must precede expression
Usage: find [-H] [-L] [-P] [path...] [expression]

the file "tobedeted.txt" is in the same dir where AAA, BBB, and so on are.

pwd:...

Thanks for the comments Methyl and Dave.
The answer by Dave doesnt work. it simply removes the content of the tobedeted.txt.

The actual dir structure is like

in the main_dir
there are...

Dear all,

I have a dir structure like
main_dir
At_nn Ag_js Nf_hc ....
mcd32 mgd43... mcd32...

Thanks for the reply.

This works fine. I could only see the changed filenames in a prompt mode.
Actual filenames are not changed.

I think I have to add something like >&

Please suggest....

Hello everybody,

I have some files in directory. I want to shift 3 characters of filenames to the right at a same time.

for example, I have filenames like $ls -l
01_2000.G3.input.txt...

Hello UNIX experts,

I have 124 text files in a directory. I want to extract the 45678th line of all the files sequentialy by file names. The extracted lines should be printed in the output file on...