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I have requirement of parsing file names from given directory based on the pattern ( pattern will be parameter to script and can be any ).

for example, user enterred 2 params :
  1. directory name : /dirname/
  2. filename_pattern : *.dat_????

and there are 2 files in the directory as :
Code:
/dirname/a.dat_1234
/dirname/b.dat_4567

Now I need to parse and retrive filename with static portion :
result :
  1. a.dat_
  2. b.dat_

Can you please give some pointers to solution, what are the ways this can be implemented.


Thanks in advance ...

Thanks
Abhijeet R
Last edited by rbatte1; 01-07-2015 at 11:12 AM.. Reason: Added LIST=1 & CODE tags to ease reading
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