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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Remove prefix from filenames Post 97027 by linuxpenguin on Wednesday 25th of January 2006 12:34:08 PM
Old 01-25-2006
Hi Lee,

I tried this snipped to identify if the file name extension has numeric character. let me know if this snippet ring any bells.

echo "${an}"| nawk '{
if ( $0 ~ /[0-9]/ )
{
printf("%s is num\n", $0);
}
else
printf("%s is alpha\n", $0);
}
'
 

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NAME

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SYNOPSIS

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DESCRIPTION

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OPTIONS

       The following options are available:

       --card number
	      Explicitly select the card to test.  Default is card 0.

       --port number
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       --playgain db
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