newbie question - how to pass textfile as an argument

[Andy Harrison]

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On 01-Oct-2003, Martin Vana wrote message "newbie question - how to pass
textfile as an argument"
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> I was just wondering if there is a way how to pass a text file with list of
> path/files to 
> programs like cp/mv.

AFAIK, you can't.  You can, however, use something like the find command.  

find /somedir -type f -name '*pattern*' -maxdepth 1 -exec mv {} newdir \;
(maxdepth 1 limits it to the current directory, otherwise it is recursive.)

~~ 
Andy Harrison
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