Sed tutorial http://www.grymoire.com/Unix/Sed.html#uh-4
[dave@dave tmp]$ more faces-config.xml
<managed-bean>
<managed-bean-name>x</managed-bean-name>
<managed-bean-class>com.dave.x</managed-bean-class>
<managed-bean-scope>request</managed-bean-scope>
</managed-bean>
<managed-bean>
<managed-bean-name>y</managed-bean-name>
<managed-bean-class>com.dave.y</managed-bean-class>
<managed-bean-scope>request</managed-bean-scope>
</managed-bean>
<managed-bean>
<managed-bean-name>z</managed-bean-name>
<managed-bean-class>com.dave.z</managed-bean-class>
<managed-bean-scope>request</managed-bean-scope>
</managed-bean>
List classes
[dave@dave tmp]$ sed -n 's#.*<managed-bean-class>\([\.a-z]*\)</managed-bean-class>#\1#'p faces-config.xml
com.dave.x
com.dave.y
com.dave.z
Create file names
[dave@dave tmp]$ sed s#\\.#/#g classes.txt
com/dave/x
com/dave/y
com/dave/z
Change classes file
sed -i s#\\.#/#g classes.txt
Add .java
[dave@dave tmp]$ sed s#\$#.java# classes.txt
com/dave/x.java
com/dave/y.java
com/dave/z.java
List classes which do not exist
[dave@dave tmp]$ xargs ls < classes.txt
ls: cannot access com/dave/y.java: No such file or directory
com/dave/x.java com/dave/z.java
[dave@dave tmp]$ ls -R com/*
com/dave:
x.java z.java