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# 1  
Old 06-06-2017
How to get a value from a file and serach that value filename in a dir?
buddies,

my requirement would be as follows,

I have a file called test.txt and content of it would be

HTML Code:
yahoo
gmail
hotmail
and i want to search a file name called "yahoo.html" (first line of test.txt) and then "gmail.html" and then "hotmail.html" in a /home/test dir.

Any idea to achive this ?
# 2  
Old 06-06-2017
Hello natraj005,

Could you please try following and let me know if this helps you(I haven't tested though).
Code:
while read line
do
    find /home/test -type f -iname $line".html"
done < "test.txt"

Thanks,
R. Singh
# 3  
Old 06-06-2017
RavinderSingh13,

to be more specfic i have to capture each line from test.txt and assign it to a variable called MAIL and then i can assign that to another variable

like below

HTML Code:
PERSONAL_MAIL=/home/test/www.$MAIL.com
so PERSONAL_MAIL will have all three files names like below

HTML Code:
/home/test/www.yahoo.com
/home/test/www.gmail.com
/home/test/www.hotmail.com
and then i will serach a patern called "username" in all the three files, like below

HTML Code:
MAIL_INFO=$(grep "^username" $PERSONAL_MAIL
Hope am not confusing you Smilie
# 4  
Old 06-06-2017
Code:
dir=/home/test

while read MAIL
do
   PERSONAL_MAIL=$dir/www.$MAIL.com
   echo $PERSONAL_MAIL
done < test.txt

# 5  
Old 06-06-2017
Thanks rdrtx1 for your quick reply!

what you gave is checking only in the first file i.e) only checking in /home/test/www.yahoo.com and coming out, and not checking in the remaining two files i.e) /home/test/www.gmail.com and /home/test/www.hotmail.com.

So, it has to search pattern "username" in all the file one by one till the test.txt gets empty or reach the bottom line of it.
# 6  
Old 06-06-2017
Difficult to believe. When running rdrtx1's proposal, I get exactly the desired output. Does your input resemble the given sample data?
# 7  
Old 06-06-2017
Am trying below script and it is not working

Code:
dir=/home/test

while read MAIL
do
   PERSONAL_MAIL=$dir/www.$MAIL.com
   ACCOUNT=$(grep -c mail $PERSONAL_MAIL)
   if [ -z "$PERSONAL_MAIL" ]
       then
            if [ -z "$ACCOUNT" ]
               echo "$PERSONAL_MAIL is avaiable "
       else
               echo "$PERSONAL_MAIL not avaiable "
       fi
    fi
   
done < test.txt

above script is not searching for all the line in test.txt and content of the file is as like below

yahoo
gmail
hotmail

let me know if i still confusing you....


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