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I have a list full of filenames (in each line is one filename). How can I copy a file (for e.g. text.txt) multiple times and rename it (example1.txt, example2.txt so on). At the end I want multiple files with the content of text.txt but with the filenames of my list. Is this possible?

Kimble
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    this has nothing to do with sed or grep – glenn jackman Nov 19 '13 at 17:31
  • welcome to stack overflow. It As @glennjackman pointed out, your question doesn't really directly relate to sed or grep (though I suppose you could write a script using those commands). I would look into the rename command see http://stackoverflow.com/a/1086509/505191 – thekbb Nov 19 '13 at 17:44

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Assuming no spaces in the filenames in your list:

for f in $list; do cp text.txt $f; done

If there are spaces, and assuming bash:

while IFS= read -r f; do cp text.txt "$f"; done <<< "$list"
glenn jackman
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while read line; do
    cp text.txt "$line"
done < text.txt

You loop over all the lines in the file, and for each filename you invoke a separate cp command.

pfnuesel
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This might work for you (GNU sed):

sed 's|.*|cp -v text.txt "&"|e' list.txt
potong
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