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yup, I have to say this is all a learning experience!

Thanks to all for feedback!

Regards
Satnam

works like a treat!

now Im trying to figure the logic behind it!

Thanks again :-)

Satnam

realised I have to use substitute but but still no joy :-(

sed 's/^.*[a-zA-Z]*[.][0-9][0-9]$//'`

Hi All,

I posted something similar before but I now have a another problem.

I have filenames as below

TOP_TABIN240_20090323.200903231830
TOP_TABIN235_1_20090323.200903231830

i need...

WIkid!... works a treat. should have mentioned I was using bash v 3.x. used the last suggetsion

's/_[0-9][0-9]*[.][0-9][0-9]*$//'

Cheers

Sat

Hi All

I have 3 files as listed below and highlighted in bold the portions of the filenames I need to extract:
TOS_TABIN218_20090323.200903231830
TOS_TABIN219_1_20090323.200903231830...