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Got it.
But it is a pretty crude method.
Liste the files on the local machine.
sorted and got the most recent file.
Again FTP'ed to the remote server and did a 'get' to get the recent file.
I...

Thanks for the reply.
I did not understand what you mean by 'massage the listing'.
there are numerous files in the remote directory and I cannot get all of them into the local machine and then pick...

Hi,
This is an FTP related query.I hvae 2 files in a remote server with the timestamp attached to it.
FilenameYYYYMMDDHHMMSS.EXT.
I need to extract both the fileswith the most recent timestamp...

Can you explain the
[^0-9]*\([0-9][0-9]*\).*/\1 &/'
part?
thanks

Hi,
I have files coming in every day with that days timestamp like:
nameyyyymmddhhmmss.ext.
I need the most recent one and so i am using

cat `ls -t name*|head -1 ` > temp

i am sorting the...

Thanks for the response,
The command works for me,but it does not work in a script,and I donot what went wrong.
Anyway i used set-x at the beginning of the script to debug it.

Hello,
I have a situation where I have filenames with timestamps like
abc20060509452313.txt

i need the most recent file, and i am using this command in the script:
recent_file=`ls...

Actually it would just help if someone would help me on how to replace <> with a /n<.
The sed command...
sed 's/<>/\
</g' < abc.xml > abcd.xml
does not work..

Hi have an xml file which is like:
<tag1>
<tag2>

<tag3>data3
</tag3>

<tag4>data4
</tag4>

</tag2>
</tag1>

i need to convert it to the standard xml format
<tag1>
<tag2>...

Thanks a lot for your responses ,the script worked with :
total=`awk '{tot=tot+$1} END {printf "%d", tot}' "$filename"`
It even worked with the FOR loop,but because of the hig volume (about...

Hi
I tried using the for loop,but I need to find the sum of numbers in a file,called temp.
This file has approx 85000 numbers in one column and i used :

for i in temp
do
total=`expr "$total +...

Hi Ahan,
I tried it but I got a syntax error .It defenitely is in the following statement:
total=`awk '{tot=tot+$1} END {print tot}' "$filename"`Any other suggestion?Thanks for the quick response

[FONT=Courier New][FONT=Courier New]I am using a script which does a lot of math and I am facing a problem.One value is greater than 10 mi and the script converts it to exponents i.e 70000000 7e... ...