Append to a variable,a string read from a file

[gvidos]

Hi,

How can I "create" a string filename fo a file by concatenating to a first sub-string the string read as the first line of a file?

e.g.

file './servers' which contains the lines:

dilos
kos
milos

and want to create filename:

mgen_dilos for example

I need to do this in a loop (for each line of file servers,create the respective filename)

Anyone willing to help?

 

[kasparov]

for name in `cat ./servers`
do
> mgen_${name}
done

The quote used is the acute quote on the top left of the keyboard.

Chris

 

[dchoulette]

while read name; do
  > "mgen_${name}"
done < ./servers