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Old 07-10-2009
akil akil is offline
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Date value
Hi
I want to grab date filed value in the below file

Code:
file120081218-153431-630.csv

Expecting 
20081218

I have tried this ,but not able get datae field

ls -lrt file120081218-153431-630.csv|awk '{print $9}'|tr "_" " "|awk '{print substr($2,1,1,(index($2,"-")-1))}'|awk '{print substr($0,-8)}'
Thanks in advance ,
Akil