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# 8  
Old 11-14-2009
I think you are using bsh so I am not sure of the syntax but it should be something like this to grep todays date from the first line of the file. For future reference a "header" could be 10 lines deep. You do not say if your date string is ymd or ydm so you may need to switch the date format around.

Code:
EtlDate='20091112';
INBOUNDDIR='/cba_app/BANKWEST/BW117/DEV/inbound'
for fname in $INBOUNDDIR/abcb_akf840*.csv; do
if(( $(head -1 $fname | grep -c $(date +"%Y%m%d")))); then
    echo $fname
  fi

done

In ksh you could drop the if statement and just: -

Code:
[[ -n $(head -1 $fname | grep $(date +"%Y%m%d")) ]] && echo $fname

Last edited by steadyonabix; 11-14-2009 at 04:48 AM.. Reason: typo
# 9  
Old 11-14-2009
Some greps can abandon the search after a certain number of lines.
Code:
grep -m1 "$(date +%Y%m%d)$" *
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