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display the file with in the date range

Hi All,

I want a shell script which can display the file with in the date range.

For Example I have 15 files with the following format

abc_01-01-2009.txt to abc_15-01-2009.txt.

Now I want to have the files between 4th of jan to 12th files.

How can I acheive this.

Advance thanx for your help......

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Fareed.

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Use seq(1) to generate the numbers in a for loop to list the files.

Code:

$ seq -w 1 5
01
02
03
04
05

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