Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi All,

I have a problem of retrieving the first line of data from the listing i got back from this command :

ls -l * | awk '{print $9}' | awk -F. '{print $3}' | sort -g

the files names are in the folder are like
month.dat.201010210400
day.dat.201010210401
year.dat.201010210402

As the folders contains other files which doesn't match the pattern ,
i get back results with blanks spaces in front of the listing .
eg :



201010210400
201010210401
201010210402

how do i omit the blanks spaces and read the first line of data from the result ? i tried using 'head -1' but it is returning me the blank row

Thanks

Code:

ls *dat* |awk -F \. '{print $NF}'

or you prefer to use ls -l

Code:

ls -l * |awk -F \. '/dat/ {print $NF}'

Thanks , it solve my problems