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Old 04-28-2009
checking existance of files and directories
I have a list of files and their directories, starting from a particular location. e.g.

temp/new/a.c
temp/new/b.c
temp/old/a.c
temp/old/older/b.c

etc.

Now I want to check the existence of all these files in the respective directories .

I am trying something like

cat "fileList" | xargs -i set myfile = {}
if(-e $myfile){print "file Exist $myfile"}

It gives some error, anybody help me !!
# 2  
Old 04-28-2009
Try this

====code====
while read line
do

ls $line
if [ $? -eq 0 ]
then
echo "$line exists"
else
echo "$line Does not exist "
fi


done < FileList
# 3  
Old 04-28-2009
Hi Amit,

I am not knowing exactly how to try your code.Smilie I am new to UNIX.
Some more info is, i am using CSH. and the the list of the filenames/directories are in a file "fileList"..
Can you give me the exact code which I can directly run in my c shell.

Thanks in Advance..
# 4  
Old 04-28-2009
The FileList contains the path of your file
> cat Filelist
temp/new/a.c
temp/new/b.c
temp/old/a.c
temp/old/older/b.c

So the script will read the file FileList line by line and check if the file is there in the path
then it will print if the file exists or not.

I hope this clears your doubt . I have executed it in ksh
# 5  
Old 04-28-2009
Code:
while read file;do
if [ -f $file ];then
	:
else
	echo "$f not exists"
fi
done < a.txt

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