Date value

akil · #1 (**permalink**) 07-10-2009

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

lathavim · #2 (**permalink**) 07-10-2009

Code:

 
 ls file120081218-153431-630.csv | cut -c6-13

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