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awk '
BEGIN           {printf "echo cp"                       # prepare shell statement
                } 
NR == FNR       {T[$1]                                  # for the first file (NR id. to FNR), collect the names to search in T array
                 next                                   # stop processing this line; read next one
                }
                {FN = $0                                # second file only: save total file path
                 gsub (/^.*\/|.txt$/, _)                # remove leading path info and ".txt" ext. from file name
                }
$0 in T         {printf " %s ", FN                      # IF the reduced file name is found in pattern array T, print the FN (full file path)
                }
END             {print " /some/where"                   # finish shell statement
                }
' file2 file1 | sh
cp ./5_April_2012_Page323.txt ./6_August_2012_Page328.txt ./10_February_2014_Sportz6.txt /some/where

$0 in T         {printf " %s.txt", $0                      # IF the reduced file name is found in pattern array T, print the filename