Bash: Loop over files listed in a text file and move them

Question

I have a directory (directory A) with 10,000 files in it. I want to move some of them to directory B and the others to directory C. I made a text file that contains the names o

Answer 1

Using bash, having a huge filelist containing strings with leading and/or closing spaces I'd propose:

less 'file-list.txt' | while read -r; do mv "$REPLY" /Volumes/hard_drive_name/new_destination_directory_name; done

see:

• How can I display the contents of a text file on the command line?
• read -r vs read -r line and IFS
• why REPLY variable in read builtin skip white space?