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'ls' content from text file?

Is it possible to list content from text file? Fro example, if the text file contains something like this:

Code:

/etc/mysql

/etc/init.d/mysql

/etc/apparmor.d/abstractions/mysql

/var/lib/php5/modules/apache2/enabled_by_maint/mysql

/var/lib/php5/modules/registry/mysql

/var/lib/php5/modules/cli/enabled_by_maint/mysql

/var/lib/mysql

/var/lib/mysql/mysql

/var/log/mysql

/usr/lib/mysql

/usr/lib/perl5/DBD/mysql

/usr/lib/perl5/auto/DBD/mysql

/usr/bin/mysql

/usr/share/phpmyadmin/js/codemirror/mode/mysql

/usr/share/php5/mysql

/usr/share/mysql

/usr/share/dbconfig-common/internal/mysql

/usr/share/dbconfig-common/data/phpmyadmin/upgrade/mysql

/usr/share/dbconfig-common/data/phpmyadmin/install/mysql

/usr/share/javascript/codemirror/mode/mysql

/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/mysql

Is it possible to implement something like "ls < text_file.txt" that will list the files and directory information for the lines in the file?

Quote:

Originally Posted by peter7089 (Post 5664474)

Is it possible to implement something like "ls < text_file.txt" that will list the files and directory information for the lines in the file?

I can think of 2 ways to do this.

xargs
Write a script

I think i found a way: ls -al `cat text_file". It seems to do what i want.

try this

Code:

grep -rnw '/path/to/somewhere/' -e "pattern"

you want to make a list of files within a different file that has their path to them from files only containing given text within the files themselves?

find
grep
redirection >

helpers
xargs
-print0

I'd have to experiment myself until I figured that out.

while read -r line; do ls -al "$line"; done < text_file

Code:

for i in `cat foo`; do bar ; done

Quote:

Originally Posted by Habitual (Post 5664541)

Code:

for i in `cat foo`; do bar ; done

Nah, not like that: http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashPitfa...8ls_.2A.mp3.29
What szboardstretcher said
http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ/001