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Old 06-25-2010
Did you replace "cd /abc/xyz" with the common parent directory where all your data files are?

So, if you type the following on the command line, you should see a list of Data.txt files:
Code:
cd /abc/xyz
ls -lrt */Data.txt

# 9  
Old 06-25-2010
I did add the entire path for my directories in my code.
What is this lrt option? I am not using this in my script!!!
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