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1. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers
Hi,
I am facing one scenario in which I need to extract exact position of date and time from the name of the files. For example, Below is the record in which I need to extract position of YYYYMMDD,HHMISS and YYMMDD. Date and time variables can come more than once. I need to use these position... (13 Replies)
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2. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers
Hi,
I want to extract part of filename, for eg:
File="010020004_S-TOR-Sort-CASAP_20170519_121504_0007.TXT"
here i need first 5 words of file i.e.
FilePart="$(echo "${File%"${File#******}"}")"
Echo $FilePart
010020004_S-TOR-Sort-CASAP
But what if i get filename like below:
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3. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers
Hi,
I'm totally new in sell script and working with a shell code. I want to extract the date and time from the filenames. The filenames are different but all of them begins with WI_ SCOPE_:
WI_SCOPE_DATA_CHANGE_2017-09-12_15-30-40.txt
WI_SCOPE_BACK_COMPLETE_QUEUE_2017-09-12_15-31-40.txt... (5 Replies)
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello experts, I want to join a file with files whosE names are mentioned in one of the columns of the same file.
File 1
t1,a,b,file number 1
t1,a,c,file number 1
t2,c,d,file number 2
t2,c,e,file number 2
t2,c,f,file number 2
t2,c,g,file number 2
t3,e,f,file number 3
file number 1... (3 Replies)
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5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi All,
I have incoming source files abcmmyy.txt I need to extract the mmyy part from the filename and pass that to a variable . I really appreciate your quick response on this.
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6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi,
I have a bash script which outputs a file with current year and month in the filename.
Last line is:
cat result_* > output.$(date +%y%m)
So for Feb 2013 this gives me output.1302
Now I am requested to run the script every first day of the month, but with the previous month in... (4 Replies)
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have lots of files in this format:
dvgrab-2003.06.29_15-30-24.mpg
The numbers represents the date and time (YYYY.MM.DD_HH-MM-SS)
How can I extract the dates from the filenames, and use the dates in the file timestamp?
I guess this can be done by using "find", "sed" and "touch"?
Can... (6 Replies)
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8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I am looking to do something where if I created a file named backup,or whatever it would print a name like “backup_Apr_11_2011”. Thanks citizencro (1 Reply)
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9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I am trying to find a way to create a script which will extract the first line of a file and then rename the file (or create a new file with the same content as the old file) using the first line as the name. The first line being a single word, that is. I am hopeless at programming, if anyone can... (5 Replies)
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I can use the following command to create a file with some name then underscore and then date appended to it in the format 'DD-MM-YYYY':
touch "newfile_`date '+%d-%m-%Y'`"
But it gives me error when I try with the similar command to create a file with the date format 'DD/MM/YYYY'. I... (4 Replies)
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