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[code] Automatic File Input

i have got many files like this in my folder temp(say)
imp_02042008.txt for date 02-04-2008
imp_03092009.txt for date 03-09-2009
imp_25112009.txt for date 25-11-2009
...................
........

in some folder.
and one of my shell code uses one of the above files based on date.
for example for todays date it should pick the file imp_25112009.txt
for tomorrows date it should pick the file like imp_26112009.txt

My code is like below one:
print substr($1,4,3),"",substr($2,22,8) inputfile.txt>outputfile.txt

This code should run on day to day basis.
What i want is a code to pick up the file (eg..imp_26112009.txt) automatically from folder temp based on day.. i.e, for a given day particular file should be taken as input in my code...
pls help me in this regard..


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