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Ok. I was looking at the "Useless use of cat" section at the top but I think you're referring to the section about using backticks. According to that my second example above would be the best...

Because most of the time I can figure out how to do something I just don't necessarily know the best way to do it. I know it could also be done like this:

while read i; do cp 1.jpg $i; done <...

if names are in file called "filenames":

for i in `cat filenames`; do cp 1.jpg $i; done

MG