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By command statement I meant \'*\'${date}* .
Sorry for the confusion.
And there r no spaces but single quotes so the back slash to escape them..

yea true. I need value of the \'*\'${date}*

Basically it searches for a particular date, file in the directory.
I know the files will be quoted. Hence the back slash to escape the quotes.
Now...

Thanks RudiC for your help.
But my filename is dynamic.

So when i used the above code to assign the file name to a variable, lets say FN or TEMPFILE... it gives the below error


set...

Hi Don,

Thanks for the update.

Hi RudiC,

Thank you for your response.
Can you plz explain me the code?
It will help me to understand and then incorporate in my script.

Also, one of...

Hi Don,

Thanks for ur reply.
POSIX I am not sure of.. :(
But yes - the script is a .csh script.
Shell gives me a $ prompt.
I am working on the script through putty utility.
Also,if you could...

Thanks all for the reply & sorry for not using the code tags...
excuse me as I am just a beginner right now.. :)

However, i feel it doesnt work..
i will explain in more detail...


i first...

Hi all,

i am new to this forum, unix and shell scripting.

I would really appreciate if you all can help me here..

I have files coming in the below format

'filename20513'13May06:03:45...