Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi,

I am looking for an answer for following senario:

I have a text file (base.txt) which consist list of files to be searched like:
base.txt

abc.txt
def.txt
fgh.txt

Now i am going to search all the listed files in another directory after reading them one by one, once i found the file in the directory then i want to copy it to another location.


Please suggest how i can fullfill this scenario.

Thanks all for your valuable suggestion.

Code:

 
cat base.txt | while read file
do
   cp <location1>/$file <location2>/$file 2>/dev/null
done

why exactly do you need a cat?

To read list of files to be searched/copied in base.txt. No?

What vgersh99 is getting at:

Code:

while read file
do
   cp <location1>/$file <location2>/$file 2>/dev/null
done < base.txt

(no cat)

I see.. That's right. cat should be avoided. Tks !!

I wouldn't go that far! Personally, I think this whole UUOC thing is over-stated. It would be better described as an "unnecessary use of cat"