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Many thanks Agama! I assumed that if it worked for echo, as you suggested trying in your first message, it would work for cp. Live and learn!.

Chuck

The suggestion above by Agama is the only one that I could get to give me 'almost there' results. There is still a question but I will start by showing the one that worked:

namefile
01.jpg...

I have a file, names(i) where each entry is 'first last' name. 'cat names' is fine. But in a shell script

>for file in $(cat names)
> do
> echo $file
> done

the first and last name...

Agama,

Not home now so can't complete the task, but that is the solution. Also appreciate the wisdom of using echo. Many thanks!

Chuck

Many thanks for the quick response.

I misstated: the names are not in an array but in a file: names(i) 0<i<700

Chuck

I haven’t used Unix in over 25 years … and so I am at a loss for something that should be very simple. I have a lot of jpeg files (i.jpg) of students in a yearbook.. I also have an array name(i)...