Hello all,<div>I was not sure how to google this, so any pointers is appreciated.</div><div><br></div><div>I have a file, $FILELIST with an absolute file path on every line, with the caveat that the first portion of the path is an environment variable. For example:</div>

<div><br></div><div>$PROJ_ROOT/path/to/file.txt</div><div>$PROJ_ROOT/path/to/another/file.txt</div><div><br></div><div>My script looks like this:</div><div><br></div><div><div>for file in  `cat $FILELIST`</div><div>do</div>

<div>        if [ -f $file ]</div><div>        then</div><div>                echo &quot;Copying $file&quot;</div><div>                cp -f `echo $file` $DEST/.</div><div>        else</div><div>            echo &quot;file not found: $file&quot;</div>

<div>        fi</div><div>done</div></div><div><br></div><div>The problem is that the $file is not evaluated to the path. I just get &quot;$PROJ_ROOT/path/to/file.txt&#39; not found.</div><div><br></div><div>If I copy the text and run &quot;more $PROJ_ROOT/path/to/file.txt&quot; I see it just fine.</div>

<div><br></div><div>How do I get Bash to evaluate the $PROJ_ROOT env variable for the -f $file?<br><br>Thanks,</div><div>Eric</div>