Unix Scripting Question

I have a file (a.lst) that has a list of fully pathed filenames, 1 per line - in this format:

"/path/to/the/name_of_file.doc"
"/path/to/the/other/name of the doc noting spaces.doc"

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 -

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)


Thanks again,
Michael

I think you can use awk options -

awk '{print $0}' list

will print each line

and you can use -F to define the field separator

input has to be redirected & variable double quoted:
#! /bin/sh
while read foo
do
echo "$foo"
test -f "$foo" && echo "$foo" >> exists.txt || echo "$foo" >> noexists.txt
done < a.txt

or (same thing)

cat a.txt | while read foo
...
done