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Hello,

I am trying to match a string between line one and line two with in the file. But I dont want to search based on the given filename. Instead I want to search for all available files in the specific directory. Please help me on the above.

OK, what code have you written so far to try and solve this?

Cheers
ZB

Hi,

Thanks for your reply. I completed the code, but if you can help me to modify the code then it will be really good.

for filename in *.*
do
PTYPE=`head -1 $filename | cut -c 14-14`
##echo $PTYPE
if [ $PTYPE = 'M' ]
then
FILE_PERIOD=`head -1 $filename | cut -c 12-16`
DATA_PERIOD=`head -2 $filename | tail -1 | cut -c 11-15`
elif [ $PTYPE = 'Q' ]
then
FILE_PERIOD=`head -1 $filename | cut -c 12-15`
DATA_PERIOD=`head -2 $filename | tail -1 | cut -c 11-14`
else
echo "Period in the fie $filename is not correct : $DATA_PERIOD "
fi
if [ $FILE_PERIOD = $DATA_PERIOD ]
then echo "File $filename Loading for Period : $FILE_PERIOD "
else
echo "Wrong File for the period $FILE_PERIOD in the $filename period is $DATA_PERIOD "
fi
done