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Old 03-10-2006
copy files with date
Hi,

I have a coupel of files in /tmp which I have to copy to /var. But I want their name to be same as the source with date suffix.

But the problem is I don;t know the prefix of the file, I only know the suffix of file.

AAA.997
ABC.997
ADC.997

The later part 997 is constant but the former part can be anything.

Is there any way that while making copy, I can find the prefix of file and then copy to /var as AAA.997.0310061430.

Thanks,
Inder
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Old 03-10-2006
Code:
#!/bin/ksh

a='AAA.997'

prefix="${a%%.*}"
suffix="${a##*.}"

echo "a->[${a}] prefix->[${prefix}] suffix->[${suffix}]"

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