Re: Finding files not present (challenge to your intelligence)
>
> Hi,
>
> I was given a text file containing one file name (no full path name)
> per line. My task consists of searching the entire filesystem and
> generate a list of the files that are NOT present.
>
> At first I thought this was a task easyly solved with a couple of
> awk's, sed's, and find's. However, it's been four days now and I still
> haven't finished this stupid thing. Right now I am working with Perl
> but haven't finished. I think I am close but just wanted to know
> if someone here at debian-user has a simple solution, the shortest
> one.
>
> The problem with using find is that this command does not return an
> error code when it does not find a file.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> E.-
>
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>
> Eloy A. Paris
> Information Technology Department
> Rockwell Automation de Venezuela
> Telephone: +58-2-9432311 Fax: +58-2-9430323
How about using find and generate a list of ALL files, then "grep
`indivual_lines_from_your_list` list_of_ALL_files" and checking grep's
return value?
Happy hacking,
MartinS
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