Question

I am new to UNIX, please help.

I have a file which has many lines, each line is a filename.

Now I want to check if each file exists in another directory with some prefixes.

For example, my text file content is

abc.def.ghi.jkl
mno.pqr.stu.vwx

I want to test if each file exists in a directory, like

cd <search directory>
ls -ltr *abc.def.ghi.jkl* 

If above result is false then throw an error.

Note: The file content is DYNAMIC and I am generating this file through another script.

Answer 1

This is the expected Answer

`ls -l > temp.cat
for i in $(cat temp.txt)
do
        ls -l *$i*
        if [[ $? -eq 0 ]]
        then
        echo " File found"
        else
         echo " File not found for $i"
        fi
done
rm -f temp.txt`

`