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Created February 7, 2014 15:39
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Create file names from input file.
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filesfromlist.sh
while read line; do touch $(echo -n "$line").myfilextension; done < input.csv
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This one liner reads an input file line by line and creates file names with the extension of your choice. In case you don't have other interesting hobbies or just need to generate hundreds of thousands of files for something every once in a while.

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