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- From: urs@carp.cis.ufl.edu (Uppili Srinivasan)
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- Subject: Substring of a file name
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- Date: 10 Sep 92 15:15:41 GMT
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- Hi,
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- I need to write a script to read a substring of some of the filenames
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- in a directory. (i.e) if xy1992 is the name i need to read the last four
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- letters only. I guess 'awk' is ideal for this . But I am curious to
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- know the other ways of doing this.
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- Thanx in advance
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- My e-mail address : urs@carp.cis.ufl.edu
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