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Scott ,
It worked awesome.
Thanks you so much .
But, can you please explain what exactly the syntax means?

Friends ,
I need some help in writing a shell script to get the first few characters from a file for all the lines in that file.

Here is sample data inthe file.
9 JACOBS 0175
10 VENDOR_0175 ...

Thanks Alister,It worked.

Alister ,
I tried the above code but its showing another error
grep: illegal option -- q
Usage: grep -hblcnsviw pattern file . . .
try again
efmsdapp:/export/home/hut$ help grep
ERROR: Key...

Hi,Thanks for the speed reply.
When i tried " if [ -n $( echo $a | grep '20100614' ) ] " this one
its saying syntax error.
here is the code I used,

a=21345zef
b=21345
case $a in
...

Hi All,
I need help from you guys.
In the shell script I have, I have a variable that has a value as follows

a=abc_20100614_12346

I want to do the following logic,

if a like '%20100614%'...