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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black'>I have a file (a.lst)
that has a list of fully pathed filenames, 1 per line - in this format:<br>
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"/path/to/the/name_of_file.doc"<br>
"/path/to/the/other/name of the doc noting spaces.doc"<br>
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I need to know how I can loop through this file, a.lst, and for each entry,
perform a test -s on it. If it exists, I want to put the entry into exists.txt,
if it does not, I want to put the entry in noexist.txt -<br>
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Can someone please help me? (I've tried for foo in `cat a.lst`, but due to the
spaces in 90% of the filenames, it pukes, as it appears to be using space as
the delimiter)<br>
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Thanks again,<br>
Michael <img width=16 height=16 src="cid:image001.gif@01C431C2.30D3A650"
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