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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Return the list of file name prefix with first 6 character Post 302897706 by cielle on Tuesday 15th of April 2014 01:57:51 PM
Old 04-15-2014
Return the list of file name prefix with first 6 character

Good day people,

Kindly advice what is the operator/command that I should try out to if I am about to return a list of prefix of my filename with first 6 character.

I understand I could use sed to retrieve the first 6 charter itself.
but i wonder if there is any aix command allow me to loop through the directory and put the prefix into a list instead of writing a function that will do a tedious looping.

My intention is to get a list of year-month from my directory.
Assuming in my directory, I am having following files:

Code:
20140101.txt
20140102.txt
20131201.txt
20131104.txt

and an array variable is returning

Code:
var[0] = 201401
var[1] = 201312
var[2] = 201311

Appreciate for your advice,

Moderator's Comments:
Mod Comment Please use code tags and also do not post generic things in the AIX forum, thanks.

Last edited by zaxxon; 04-17-2014 at 03:51 AM..
 

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