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Old 06-07-2008
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concatenate files sorted by date
I am a beginner in script writing, i tried to do the following
I have a set of files sorted by date in the format YYMMDD.s and .x and .r
I need to concatenate a header file to these sets of files so I used the following code

Code:
echo "enter Swath number"
read s
echo "please enter first date and MMDD press ENTER"
read i
echo "please enter last date and MMDD  press ENTER"
read j
for((i; i <= j; i++))
do
cat NJSC_Alam_Ph1_Blk1_3D_HDR_S /ud/SPECSDATA/Final_SPS/Alam3D/Swath_${s}/08${i}.s  > /ud/SPECSDATA/Final_SPS/Alam3D/Swath_${s}/08${i}_Final.s

cat NJSC_Alam_Ph1_Blk1_3D_HDR_R /ud/SPECSDATA/Final_SPS/Alam3D/Swath_${s}/08${i}.r  > /ud/SPECSDATA/Final_SPS/Alam3D/Swath_${s}/08${i}_Final.r

cat NJSC_Alam_Ph1_Blk1_3D_HDR_X /ud/SPECSDATA/Final_SPS/Alam3D/Swath_${s}/08${i}.x  > /ud/SPECSDATA/Final_SPS/Alam3D/Swath_${s}/08${i}_Final.x

done

I expect it to concatenate the files based on the user input.
I have 2 problems, the first on is that it doesn't do this for example if I enter the value for i and j to be 0530 and 0531 for 30 and 31 of May it searches for a file named 08345 instead of 080530.
the other problem is how can i make the script to work for 2 different months? like I have the first file as 300508 and last file as 050608, the loop is not going o work there