Shell Programming and Scripting

I am attempting to ls the contents of a file. The purpose is to check if each member of the members within the file are present in the current directory. Can someone tell me why I'm only getting a part of the list when the following is performed?

-command:
ls `cat list_file`*

-list_file contents:

X3O86160
X3O86155
X3O86110

-Result:
UX:ls: ERROR: Cannot access X3O86160: No such file or directory
UX:ls: ERROR: Cannot access X3O86155: No such file or directory
X3O86110.cl2

Only the last member of the file displays, however I have made sure that the other 2 members exist in the directory. The reason for the * after the command is due to the filenames having various extensions. I am trying to have the user create a list of files (without the extensions), and ls the contents to check if they exist in the current directory. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

The star is appended only to the last one.


Try:
ls `cat file | sed 's/$/*/'`

This assumes that each item is on a separate line in the file.

Thank you, that seems to work for the most part.. I'm still not able to fully list all of the members in the list. The last member is not included, any idea why this could happen with the command?

ls `cat list_file | sed 's/$/*/'`
TMDMA07.cbl TMDMA09.cbl TMDMA10.cbl TMDMA12.cbl TMDMA15.cbl TMDMA17.cbl

pg list_file
TMDMA17
TMDMA15
TMDMA12
TMDMA10
TMDMA09
TMDMA07
TMDMA04
(EOF):

try something like:

for i in `cat gtmp`
do
ls -l "$i".*
done

where gtmp contains

X3O86160
X3O86155
X3O86110

and the current directory contains:

-rw------- 1 root other 0 Jun 7 12:24 X3O86160.crp
-rw------- 1 root other 0 Jun 7 12:25 X3O86155.trp
-rw------- 1 root other 0 Jun 7 12:25 X3O86110.txt
#

I also find it weird that the above command works at certain times to display the results(minus the one last member in the list), then at other times cannot find the members in the list without me changing a thing.. anyone have any idea why this could be? I've been working on this for a couple days now, and have been stuck on this issue.

*As for the previous post, the code doesn't seem to work for me.. But thank you for your response.

decompose your problem in small steps.

First off use od -c on your input file to see if there are embedded non-printing characters.

Next.

Code:

cat file | sed 's/$/*/' | od -c | pg

inspect the output of sed. Examine it any time a directory has problems.

Assume the problem has to lie in your input file - the sed trick will work on well-behaved input. I suspect your problem lies in the creation of the input file.

Jim, thank you for your response.. figured out that dtpad is causing the issue.. it is not placing a carriage return at the end of the last line.