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Old 06-24-2013
[Solved] Assign file name = to string in a different file
I have two files:
pgmname.ou1 - contains invoice data
pgmname.ou2 - contains unique file name for pgmname.ou1

I want to copy pgmname.ou1 to a file with the name specified in pgmname.ou2.
So if pgmname.ou2 has a line in it with the following data:
FILE.NAME.UNIQUE.csv
I want to:
Code:
cpy pgmname.ou1 FILE.NAME.UNIQUE.csv

How can I do this? Thx in advance.
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Old 06-24-2013
Code:
n12:/home/vbe/test $ mv pgname1 $(cat pgname2)   # or cp...
n12:/home/vbe/test $ ll FILE.NAME.UNIQUE.csv
-rw-rw-r--    1 vbe      sds            0 Jun 24 18:40 FILE.NAME.UNIQUE.csv

This of course if you are sure you have at least AND only one line in your second file... My pgname1 was issued with touch command so 0 for size...
And of course using cat you could initialize a variable and use that vairable for the copy...
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Old 06-24-2013
Thanks so much. Was simpler than I thought.

Tried assigning the name to a variable which worked.
Code:
FILENAME=$(cat $wrk_dir/pgmname.ou2)

Instead decided to copy it right to the destination directory.
Code:
cp $wrk_dir/pgmname.ou1 $dest_dir"/"$(cat $wrk_dir/pgmname.ou2)

 
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