BASH with AWK

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

Hello,

I have a file.txt with 20000 lines and 2 columns each which consists of current_filename and new_filename . I want to create a script to find files in a directory with current_filename and move it to new folder with new_filename.

Could you please help me how to do that??

Thanks in advance,

2

You can try something like that :

current_folder=.
new_folder=./archive

while read current_filename new_filename
do
   current="${current_folder}/${current_filename}"
   new="${new_folder}/${new_filename}"
   [ -f "${current}" ] && mv "${current}" "${new}"
done <file.txt

Jean-Pierre.

3

Thanks Jean.