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touch and input options

Basically i have a list of about 150 words, I would like to create an empty file for each word, since this is beginning to appear to be a real pain in windows, so hopefully someone can give me an idea for linux. the file that i have can be in .xls, .csv, .txt, pretty much any format if that helps at all. example file is just a list of names like jim bob, sue may, bobby joe. I would like to use it as input for touch and create empty files jimbob.txt, suemay.txt, bobbyjoe.txt or similiar.

Thanks!

Assuming:
- you have all your names in a txt file (called bla.txt in the example)
- all names are separated by commas and contain no other "special character" than white space
the following simple script seams a reasonable start point

Code:

#!/bin/bash



# Set Input Field Separator to 'comma'

IFS=","



# loop on each field found

for name in `cat ./bla.txt`

do

  # strip out white spaces

  filename=`echo $name | sed 's/ //g'`

  # create the file

  touch $filename.txt

done

adapt and enhance to suit your needs.

Good luck :)