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Is this a Bourne or Korn (or whatever script)?
If the first line of your script does not call out a shell, it will run in the shell from which you are logged in as.
Using the . will use the current...

This will work.

# ls filename.xxx.201* filename.zzz.201* > myfile

Here is a script that you can use (see attached). You will have to modify it a bit because it is based on a source HP-UX box. But it will push out to most *NIX flavors.

TYVM rdcwayx and drl.
I guess if I was going to use it enough and I am really 'lana' about using ksh internals, I could just write a function like this.
strip () {
read -p "Input: " istring
...

I figured this would be simple, but I am stuck.

Variable longpath="/dir1/dir2/dir3/filename.stuff.morestuff.garbage"
I want to end up with just "filename.extra.moreextra". So, I want to get rid...