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  • first cd .. then run your command. You are effectively telling the machine to look for directory1 under directory1. That is where the confusion is coming from if you expressed your situation correctly. Commented Mar 31, 2016 at 13:23
  • Thanks for the suggestion, but going up one level means Linux cannot find directory1. (I also had to change the path to filelist.txt, but that sill dd not work. Interestingly, both commands result in the same error messages, with either directory as the current one. Commented Mar 31, 2016 at 14:01