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Old 01-18-2016
Rename files based on name in text file
Hello, I have a text file "file.list" with the contents below.

Code:
file1
filename1
file2
filename2
file3
filename3

file1, file2 and file3 are files existing in the same directory as the text file file.list.
I want to rename file1 to filename1, file2 to filename2, as show in the text file.

Any suggestions.
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Old 01-18-2016
Any ideas/thoughts/attempts from your side?

---------- Post updated at 12:31 ---------- Previous update was at 12:30 ----------

Howsowever, try
Code:
while read FN1; do read FN2; echo mv $FN1 $FN2; done < file.list
mv file1 filename1
mv file2 filename2
mv file3 filename3

Remove the echo when happy with the output.
Last edited by RudiC; 01-18-2016 at 07:55 AM..
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