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Here is the script..
Then i executed the following command for script cp_script.ksh

Output displayed on the screen is
None of the files copied to /home/output directory
Please correct if anything i am doing wrong..

Ksrams,
The first thing I can see is on the first line:

Code:

#!usr/bin/ksh

It should be exactly where the 'ksh' is located in your system.

Generally:

Code:

#!/bin/ksh

I would like to modify the shell_life code a bit here ... see it.

#!/bin/ksh
mInDir=$1 ## Parameter one
mOutDir=$2 ## Parameter two
mDTimeExp='_[0-9]\{8\}.[0-9]\{6\}.txt'
cd ${1}
ls -1 | while read mFile
do
if [[ -f $mFName]]
then
mFName=`echo ${mFile} | sed "s/\(.*\)${mDTimeExp}/\1/"`
mOutFile=${mOutDir}${mFName}'.txt'
sed '1d;$d' ${mFile} > ${mOutFile}
rm -f ${mFile}
fi
done


Please pass as argument the absolute path to input directory and oupt directory
Ex script_name /home/user/ksrams/input /home/user/ksrams/output
keep all your input*_22224*.txt directory here ...
run the script hope work .
enjoy

Code:

timeStmpExpr='_[0-9]\{8\}.[0-9]\{6\}.TXT'

versus:

Code:

timeStmpExpr='_[0-9]\{8\}.[0-9]\{6\}.txt'

Thanks a lot for all your prompt responses Shell_life.
I made the above change and did run the script but its not copied any of the files in input directory to output directory.
Still i got output result as
its not at all displaying message on the screen, i believe its not processing while loop..right?

Jambesh,

I tried your code and its giving me this output

Any Idea how to correct the above error..

File extensions in the input directory are .TXT and i want output file extensions as .txt

Thanks..