Recursive follow files in bash

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I have files which contain file names pointing to other files. These files contain further file names pointing further files and so on. I need a bash script which follows each files recursively and logs into file every touched file during the run.

file1:
   file2
   file3

file2:
   file4

file3:
   file5

file4 and file5 are empty. Result:

file1
file2
file4
file3
file5

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