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A version using awk:

find /Archive -f -name 12345.pdf -printf "%T@ %p\n" | awk '$1 > P { P=$0 } ; END { $0=P ; $1=""; print substr($0,2) }'

find /Archive -f -name 12345.pdf -printf "%T@ %p\n" | sort -rn | head -n 1

This will prepend a date in epoch seconds to every file name, which sort can order by time.

Try:
$ s=J1705PEAN038TDMN
$ echo "${s##*[!0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]}"
TDMN

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If it does not need to be exactly 3 digits, but 3 or more digits then you could try:
echo "${s##*[0-9][0-9][0-9]}"

echo 'J1705PEAN038TDMN' | sed 's/.*[0-9]//'
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having a sample file would help. Identifying a field to be...

$ echo "J1705PEAN038TDMN" | grep -o "[0-9][0-9][0-9][^0-9]*$"

038TDMN

$ VAL=$(echo "J1705PEAN038TDMN" | grep -o "[0-9][0-9][0-9][^0-9]*$")
$ VAL=${VAL:3}
$ echo $VAL

TDMN

$

There's...

Not sure if this will work on more sophisticated file structures:
awk '{sub (/\n"/, _)} 1' RS= file
line 1
line 2line 3

For your new request, try
awk '{gsub (/\n *"/, _)} 1' RS= file

$ awk '/^"/ { print L substr($0,2) ; L="" ; C=0; next } { if(C) print L ; L=$0 ; C=1 } END { if(C) print L }' inputfile

line 1
line 2line 3

$ I'll need more details on the newline carriage...

If you take the question literally, then no. The shell has to change its own directory, nothing from the outside can force it to change. Any external program will have its own, separate, current...

Yes. IF you source a script it runs in the conext of the current process rather than as a child

two ways

# bash source command
source myscript.sh
# standard for other shells
. myscript.sh

expr 1234_v2_abcd : '.*_v.'

echo 1234_v2_abcd | perl -lne 'print(index($_, "_v")+2)'
Or if +3 if you count position from 1.

Hi,

Just search this on the forum before asking (https://www.unix.com/shell-programming-scripting/23859-how-get-weekday-given-date.html) :)

You can't help unwanted things splitting on spaces when your list is separated by spaces.

Most here could have suggested that if you'd posted your complete script, or at least what your actual...

Why not simply do the following instead?
source_folder=/my_files
/Scripts/Combine_PDFs_python.py -o /TEST`date +%H-%M-%S`.pdf "$source_folder"/*

Pathname expansion, which expands the asterisk...

There is no quote removal done on the results of parameter expansion. The file names seen by the python script in this case include those quotes.



In this example, the shell will remove those...

# echo "sdgfj ghjsdgfjhds11.xml" | sed 's/.*\(.....\)\..*/\1/'
hds11
t=${a%?????.xml};b=${a##$t};echo "${b%%.*}"
# a="sdgfj ghjsdgfjhds11.xml"
# echo $a
sdgfj ghjsdgfjhds11.xml
#...

We really don't (yet) have a posting that addresses the general problem of number of days between two dates. So I have just finished what should be the last date calculation script that I ever...