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Thanks. It produced the following output

FILE_NAME=/core/local/in/file_name3FILE_NAME=/core/local/in/file_name2FILE_NAME=/core/local/in/file_name1

I am looking for an output of this format...

Can someone help me in solving the problem below.

I have the following two files

template_file
------------
...other data..
...other data..
FILE_NAME=
...other data..
...other data..
...

Really appreciate all the quick responses. I am going to go with the awk solution suggested by Franklin. works like a charm. Thanks to everyone for your suggestions.

I have an input file of this format
<Date><other data>

For example,

20081213aaaaaaaaa
20081213bbbbbbbbb
20081220ccccccccc
20081220ddddddddd
20081220eeeeeeeee
20081227ffffffffffffff

...

this is just going to display the dates which is not what I want. I want to edit the dates thru a script.

I have a comma delimited file with following data

text1,text2,text3,text4,date1,date2,textn,textn+1

I want to edit ONLY the dates in the file. date1 and date2 to some other value. say date3 and...

I have an input file. Each line in it has several characters. If the first three characters of the line is '000' or '001' or '002' or '003', I need to print it in output. How can I do this in awk.
...

Thanks, it worked

I have a string as "Period= 20090531 Client Name= Clayton Lumbar Company Destination= MD"

I want to parse the string and store it in 3 different variables.

$period (should get value 20090531)...

Thanks. It worked.

I recently started working in c shell and I am embarrassed to say I can't get a single read using while command to work

while read line
do
print $line
done < list.txt

Can somebody help. I...

How can I extract few lines(like 10 to 15, top 10 and last 10) from a file using perl.

I do it with sed, head and tail in unix scripting. I am new to perl. Appreciate your help.

Is there a generic syntax of this?

sed -n -e 's/^[0-9]\{8\}20*/&/p' file

I understand as you are skipping until 8th position and do a pattern search with 20*. I do not understand how the [0-9]...

That works fine. Much appreciated.

I am curious to know. Are there any alternate ways to do it other than using awk? Like sed, grep or cut. Do any other unix utility provide the option of...

I have a fixed length file in the following format

<date><product_code><other data>

The file size is huge and I have to extract only the lines that match a certain product code which is of 2...