Re: shell script question:How 2 assign several fields from a file to a variable?

["Adrian C." <drupix@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hint: Use sed to remove spaces from names.txt first.

--Adrian.

vick Julius wrote:

> Hello everybody
>
> I want to rename files with the new names from a text file, names.txt:
>
> Brazilian coffee
> Canadian maple
> Korean car
>
>
>
> i want to use the following script
>
> for i in *.doc
> do
>
>    for file in `cat names.txt`
>   do
>    mv  $i   $file....
>
>
>
> I want to renmae all files (in *.doc) with the new names read from 
> names.txt file.
>
> The problem is the names in the file names.txt have spaces...
>
>
> Any idea?
>
> Thanks
>
> Vick
>
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