Shell Programming and Scripting

/xyz/Test/testsrc.c /xyz/nmake/build.mak /abc/1.c /abc/1.h ../proj_src/2.c ../proj_src/2.h /abc/svn/.svn  xyz/dump/dump.log

/xyz/Test/testsrc.c /xyz/nmake/build.mak /abc/1.c

Dest/testsrc.c Dest/build.mak Dest/1.c

Dest/xyz/Test/testsrc.c Dest/xyz/nmake/build.mak Dest/abc/1.c

while read file
do
  dest=Dest${file}
  cp "$file" "$dest"
done < inputfile

ls source && cat source/input
abc  Dest  input  xyz
/xyz/Test/testsrc.c
/xyz/nmake/build.mak
/abc/1.c

while read file; do dest=/Dest${file}; cp "$file" "$dest"; done < input

cp: cannot stat `/xyz/Test/testsrc.c': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `/xyz/nmake/build.mak': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `/abc/1.c': No such file or directory

while read file
do
  dest=/Dest${file}
  cp "$file" "$dest"
done < inputfile

while read file; do dest=Dest; cp "$file" "$dest"; done < input
Input contains:
xyz/Test/testsrc.c
xyz/nmake/build.mak
abc/1.c