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Old 10-05-2005
directory names in a flat file

Hi,
Consider a flat file abc.conf contains some rows. Each row contains the directory name with full path. now I want to find a particular file in every directory which are mentioned in the abc.conf file. How it can be done through unix shell script.
# 2  
Old 10-05-2005
If you are searching for abc.txt.

Code:
while read dir
do
echo "Searching in $dir"
find "$dir" -name abc.txt
done < abc.conf

Not tested.
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Old 10-06-2005
find `cat abc.conf` -name filename.ext
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