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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Find most recent file and copy to another directory. Post 302940399 by RudiC on Saturday 4th of April 2015 03:19:27 PM
Old 04-04-2015
Try
Code:
X=126
for FN in $(ls ABCD*)
   do   T=${FN%.*}
        NO=${T##*[A-Z]}
        [[ 10#$NO -gt $X ]] && echo mv ${FN%${NO}*}${NO}${FN#*${NO}} ./NEWDIR/
   done
mv ABCD_ABC_Abc_AB0127.abc ./NEWDIR/
mv ABCD_ABC_Abc_AB0128.abc ./NEWDIR/

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tdiary-setup

TDIARY-SETUP(1) 					      General Commands Manual						   TDIARY-SETUP(1)

NAME

       tdiary-setup -- installer to set up tdiary files for a user

SYNOPSIS

       tdiary-setup [default  | symlink  | copy  | update ] directory

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page documents briefly the tdiary-setup commands.

OPTIONS

       These  programs	follow	the  usual  GNU  command  line	syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-').  A summary of options is
       included below.	For a complete description, see the Info files.

       default	 Copy CGI files and set up a tdiary user.  Choose default if your httpd runs under suEXEC mode, which is generally recommended	to
		 make security stronger.

       symlink	 Make symbolic links and set up a tdiary user.	Choose symlink if your httpd does not run under suEXEC mode.

       copy	 Copy all the files and set up a tdiary user.

       update	 Update existing tDiary setting.  Use this when you update the tdiary package.

       directory Directory where CGI files will be copied. If the directory does not exist it will be made.

USAGE

       tdiary-setup default /home/foo/public_html/diary

AUTHOR

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