I have a file with different paths on every line
path_1
path_2
...
and so on.
I need to check if all these paths are valid ones.
The way I am doing now is to create a new directory (tmp) and then writing
while read line; do cp $line > tmp; done < my_paths_file
and then checking if the number of files copied into tmp directory is equal to the number of lines in the file. This takes too long due to a lot of number of lines in my file.
Is there a smarter and quicker way to check the validity of all the paths?