Apache rewrite read destination from map files - apache

I need to dynamically rewrite urls in Apache by reading the mapped destination url from an alias file (one for each url). Here is my directory structure:
/websites
/.aliases
alias-of-site-1 (file containing 0ad5c94df074c13f)
alias-of-site-2 (file containing 50d9a12e9619d041)
(...)
/0ad5c94df074c13f (website subdirectory for alias-of-site-1)
/50d9a12e9619d041 (website subdirectory for alias-of-site-2)
(...)
When a visitor navigate to http://example.com/alias-of-site-1, I need to read the real subdirectory of the website from the file /websites/.aliases/alias-of-site-1, then rewrite the url as http://example.com/0ad5c94df074c13f
I find the Apache RewriteMap directive, but it only seems to work when all key / values are in one file. In my case, each alias has its own file.

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Redirect the /acp/ directory and it's files like this: http://club.example.com/acp/post.php
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