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thank you very much Rudic. I will check.

Thank You RudiC for all your efforts.
Sorry I forgot to mention system and shell. :(
system is AIX 6.1 and shell is ksh
I will try your code.

in your code

do if [ "${line:0:3}" != "dir" ]...

Thanks for the reply. Sorry if i am not clear here.
suppose file1 is as follow ( and other files file2, file3 etc also similar to this, only data is different)


00020856820000 00544 ...

Hi All,

Please help.
I have got a file which contains a listing of a file and some directories after it, one by one. I am calling this file xyz.txt here
file1
dir1
dir2
dir3
dir4
file2...

ls | grep -v ".[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]"

if u want to list files without date timestamp after .

otherwise
ls | grep -v \\.
or
ls | grep -v "\."

this can also happen when another process deletes this directory and recreates it, for eg. if you are in the dir notes in one shell window and another process deleted this directory and then created...