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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Help parse comma separated list Post 302466391 by NoMadBanker on Tuesday 26th of October 2010 10:12:52 AM
Old 10-26-2010
Help parse comma separated list
I have a list of files with the same name, but they have a different date stamp in the name. I can find the first file, but I need to find the second file. I am using this information to create a variable I use later. Here is a example of how I find the first file.
"ls -mr /HOME/Daily_????????.txt | cut -d "," -f1 | head -1"
files are Daily_20100101.txt, Daily_20100102.txt, Daily_20100103.txt, etc.
this list get converted to Daily_20100103.txt,Daily_20100102.txt,Daily_2010101.txt
The variable1 gets set to "/HOME/Daily_20100103.txt"

I can grab the most current day, but I also need the information for the prior day and I can not seem to grab the second file in the list.
I would like variable2 to be "/HOME/Daily_20100102.txt"
Thanks in advance for your assistance.
 

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