[Solved] Creating text files based on list of file names [closed]

Question

You can try this:

#!/bin/bash
while read -r line; do
    date="${line:4:8}"
    echo "$line" >> "${date}.txt"
done < filenames.txt

Accepted Answer

You can try this:

#!/bin/bash
while read -r line; do
    date="${line:4:8}"
    echo "$line" >> "${date}.txt"
done < filenames.txt