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Old 04-11-2014
Appologies Alister.I am very new to this forum.Please bare with me.

My final problem statement as follows:

I need to find all files other than first two files dates & last file date for month and month/year wise list.

lets say there are following files in directory
Code:
Mar 19 2012 c.txt
Mar 19 2012 cc.txt
Mar 21 2012 d.txt
Mar 22 2012 f.txt
Mar 24 2012 h.txt
Mar 25 2012 w.txt
 
Feb 12 2012 q.txt
Feb 21 2012 a.txt
Feb 21 2012 aa.txt
Feb 22 2012 s.txt
Feb 23 2012 k.txt
Feb 27 2012 j.txt
 
Mar 19 15:43 c.txt
Mar 21 15:43 d.txt
Mar 22 15:43 f.txt
Mar 24 15:43 h.txt
Mar 25 15:43 w.txt
Mar 25 15:43 ww.txt
 
Feb 12 15:43 q.txt
Feb 21 15:43 a.txt
Feb 22 15:43 s.txt
Feb 23 15:43 k.txt
Feb 27 15:43 j.txt
Feb 27 15:43 jj.txt

output should be:
Code:
#for Mar 2012
Mar 22 2012 f.txt
Mar 24 2012 h.txt
 
#for Feb 2012
Feb 22 2012 s.txt
Feb 23 2012 k.txt
 
#for Mar 2014
Mar 22 15:43 f.txt
Mar 24 15:43 h.txt
 
#for Feb 2014
Feb 22 15:43 s.txt
Feb 23 15:43 k.txt

Last edited by vbe; 04-11-2014 at 12:33 PM..
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