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Looping inside directories based on a file which contains file directory list

Hi All,

Please help.
I have got a file which contains a listing of a file and some directories after it, one by one. I am calling this file xyz.txt here

Code:

file1
dir1
dir2
dir3
dir4
file2
dir5
dir6
dir7
dir8
file3
dir9
dir10
dir11
dir12

Requirement is that I have to pick the files one by one from xyz.txt file i.e. file1 then file2 then file3 ... for file1 I have to go inside directories listed below file1 i.e. dir1, dir2,dir3, dir4. for file2 I have to go inside directories listed below file2 i.e. dir5,dir6, dir7, dir8. means like a loop. Actually, inside these directories there are some log files. i have to search for a pattern (some records)from these log files and grep these records from the files mentioned in the file xyz.txt ( this part looks easy and i can try for it).
Only thing is I am not able to loop through file xyz.txt

thanks.

Piyush Jakra

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nwdir

NWDIR(1)							       nwdir								  NWDIR(1)

NAME

       nwdir - Lists files in directory

SYNOPSIS

       nwdir [-h] [-v] [-l] [-t] [-d] [-e] [-f] [directory]

DESCRIPTION

       nwdir lists files, directories and their attributes from the specified NetWare directory.

OPTIONS

       -h
	  -h is used to print out a short help text.

       -d
	  List directories like other files, rather than listing their contents.

       -l
	  Show filename in all available namespaces.

       -v
	  Verbose listing, display everything possible.

       -e
	  Display OS/2 Extended Attributes.

       -f
	  List connections using each file.

       -t
	  Show all informations (rights, attributes, file inodes) also as hexadecimal numbers.

       directory
	  You  can  specify  the directory to list. Current working directory is used by default. You have to specify path in Linux format, not in
	  NetWare format.

EXAMPLES

       nwdir -t -v /NetWare/server/sys

       With this example, all files from directory /NetWare/server/sys are displayed.

AUTHORS

       nwdir was written by Milan Vandrovec. See the Changes file of ncpfs for other contributors.

BUGS

       Directory quotas are not displayed. User names are not taken from NDS, but only from bindery.

nwdir								     4/2/1998								  NWDIR(1)