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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Copy all the files with time stamp and remove header,trailer from file Post 302128820 by jambesh on Thursday 26th of July 2007 02:35:39 PM
Old 07-26-2007
@ksrams
I would like to modify the shell_life code a bit here ... see it.

#!/bin/ksh
mInDir=$1 ## Parameter one
mOutDir=$2 ## Parameter two
mDTimeExp='_[0-9]\{8\}.[0-9]\{6\}.txt'
cd ${1}
ls -1 | while read mFile
do
if [[ -f $mFName]]
then
mFName=`echo ${mFile} | sed "s/\(.*\)${mDTimeExp}/\1/"`
mOutFile=${mOutDir}${mFName}'.txt'
sed '1d;$d' ${mFile} > ${mOutFile}
rm -f ${mFile}
fi
done


Please pass as argument the absolute path to input directory and oupt directory
Ex script_name /home/user/ksrams/input /home/user/ksrams/output
keep all your input*_22224*.txt directory here ...
run the script hope work .
enjoy
 

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