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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Scripting question Post 302954107 by RavinderSingh13 on Friday 4th of September 2015 09:17:09 AM
Old 09-04-2015
Hello aurn,

Following may help you in same.
Code:
###One liner form:
while read line; do ZERO=0; ls -l $line > /dev/null 2>&1; if [[ $? -eq $ZERO ]]; then echo "File named $line found."; else echo "File named $line NOT found."; fi; done < "Input_file"
  
OR
### NON one liner form:
while read line
do
    ZERO=0
    ls -l $line > /dev/null 2>&1
    if [[ $? -eq $ZERO ]]
    then
      echo "File named $line found."
    else
   echo "File named $line NOT found."
    fi
done < "check1213"

Output will be as follows.
Code:
File named HTS40002.W1978.PROM found.
File named HTS40003.W1978.PROM NOT found.
File named HTS40004.W1978.ADUS found.
File named HTS40003.W1978.PROp NOT found.
File named HTS40004.W1978.ADUS found.
File named HTS40004.W1978.PDnm NOT found.
File named HTS40002.W1978.PRjk NOT found.
File named HTS40003.W1978.PRyu NOT found.
File named HTS40004.W1978.ADdf NOT found.
File named HTS40003.W1978.PRqw found.
File named HTS40004.W1978.ADrt NOT found.
File named HTS40004.W1978.PDDT found.

NOTE: Input file used is as follows: Also I have placed script in same path where I need to look for files, if you want to setup script somewhere else then with ls command you can add complete path. Also I have created files named HTS40004.W1978.PDDT, HTS40003.W1978.PRqw, HTS40004.W1978.ADUS, HTS40002.W1978.PROM.
Code:
 cat check1213
HTS40002.W1978.PROM
HTS40003.W1978.PROM
HTS40004.W1978.ADUS
HTS40003.W1978.PROp
HTS40004.W1978.ADUS
HTS40004.W1978.PDnm
HTS40002.W1978.PRjk
HTS40003.W1978.PRyu
HTS40004.W1978.ADdf
HTS40003.W1978.PRqw
HTS40004.W1978.ADrt
HTS40004.W1978.PDDT

Thanks,
R. Singh
Last edited by RavinderSingh13; 09-04-2015 at 10:26 AM.. Reason: Adding file names which I have created for testing purposes.
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