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I have a file that contains a listing of certain file names. I'm trying to search across different directories for the names of the files contained in the list and output the result to a text file.

I believe I can do this with xarg command but I can't figure it out. I read through the man pages but it's not giving me enough info to properly construct the command.

I tried the following command but it's telling me the file name must have a .c or .C or .ln in the file name?

Code:

ls -l | xargs lint -a <filelist

How can I do this?

But why do you use lint then ?

man lint (7) - Lint error message list - Linux Manual - Digipedia ..

If your list has fully qualified filenames:

Code:

xargs < filelist lint -a

Otherwise you could use find

Code:

find . -type f | grep -f filelist | xargs -I{} lint "{}"

Tried both of these and I'm still getting the same error.



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Ah.

Thanks for this. I see now why it didn't work.

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Don't get confused by my last statement. I still can't get this thing to work. The files in the list has an extention of .txt. I need to read from the list and list all the files that was found please.

OK, but I'm confused. Is it that you want to pass some files to lint or not???

If not, what is it you want to pass them to?

I just found out that lint is a C+ thing.

All I'm trying to do is read from a list of files and then search for the files across several directories and print the file if it's found to a text file.

So now I'm confused too, because I'm not sure what lint or xargs have to do with it.

What is wrong with:

Code:

find . -type f | grep -f filelist > matches.txt

Please show a sample of your input file (the "file list").