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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting parsing filename and grabbing specific string patterns Post 302498259 by rdcwayx on Sunday 20th of February 2011 07:44:36 PM
Old 02-20-2011
Quote:
Originally Posted by rukasetsuna

The solution works for the example you gave but doesnt work for the other cases....Thanks a lot though :-)

Ruk
fixed.

Code:
$ echo testfile_string3_string4.csv |sed 's/^[^_]*_//;s/_[0-9][^_]*\./\./'
string3_string4.csv

$ echo testfile_string1_string2_string3_20100232to201130203.csv |sed 's/^[^_]*_//;s/_[0-9][^_]*\./\./'
string1_string2_string3.csv

Last edited by rdcwayx; 02-20-2011 at 09:14 PM..
 

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