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# 1  
Old 05-07-2013
How to check if the file exists in directory?
Hi Gurus,

I have a requests to find if all the file in the filelist exist in certain directory.
example:
my filelist
Code:
abc
def
ddd
cde
afg

how can I find these 5 files exists at director /home/abc

Thanks in advance
# 2  
Old 05-07-2013
Is this homework? If not, what have you tried so far?
# 3  
Old 05-07-2013
No, it is not a homework.

I tried list the file then send to tmp file, then using diff to compare. but it doesn't work
ls > tmp
diff tmp filelist
# 4  
Old 05-07-2013
You could use a while loop to read the file names from the file: filelist and check each one in the dir: /home/abc
Code:
while read file
do
        [ -e "/home/abc/${file}" ] && echo "File: $file does exists" || echo "File: $file does not exists"
done < filelist

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Old 05-07-2013
Code:
#!/bin/ksh
d='/home/abc'
fileList='./filelist'
while read file
do
if [ -f "${d}/${file}" ]; then
   echo "${file} exists"
else
   echo "${file} does not exist"
fi
done < "${fileList}"

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# 6  
Old 05-07-2013
Code:
$ ls -1 /home/abc |grep -wf filelist
ddd

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# 7  
Old 05-07-2013
Quote:
Originally Posted by RudiC
Code:
$ ls -1 /home/abc |grep -wf filelist
ddd

Those grep options cannot cope with whitespace nor characters that are special in BRE grammar (most notably, the dot). Instead of -w, I would suggest -xF.

Minor nit: -1 is redundant.

Regards,
Alister
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