Reading Files In - SUN Solaris

Pablo_beezo · #1 (**permalink**) 06-12-2008

I'm looking to write a script where i look in a file called files.txt. This file has a list of other files in there.

I want the script to be able to look at this files.txt and go off and find the files that are listed in another directory.

I am doing it this way as filenames change week in week out and I want to change files.txt and not have to go into the script in anyway.

any help would be appreciated.

joeyg · #2 (**permalink**) 06-12-2008

Code:

while read zf
  do
# command to do on file
  ls -l "$zf"
# more commands
#
done <files.txt

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