02-17-2012
Thanks a lot Corona688 for this valuable advise. I'll check if this is possible. One thing is that the TRANSFERRING_FNAME would be assigned with a value that the users passes as the argument to the shell script. So it can contain anything starting from absolute value abc140212095639.dat to abc*.dat or abc?.dat.
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