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Old 01-02-2009
Christoph Spohr Christoph Spohr is offline
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Hi,

shell variables inside '' are not expanded. So here


Code:
mv $i `echo $i | sed 's/$myfile//'`

$myfile will not be substituted by "date '+ABC%Y%m%d'".

Either use "..." or no sed at all. Shell built-ins are enough. Try:

Code:
mv $i ${i/200[7-9][0-1][0-9][0-3][0-9]/}

HTH Chris