RE: Help on Scripts

2003-06-27 Thread John Morrison
> From: Amer Baig > > This is first time I am using this mailing list, so please direct me to > right list if I am putting it on wrong place. I am IT professional > working in a telecom sector. > > I have installed Cygwin on Windows Xp. I have file in a folder with > names like PPD.20030116.0298,

RE: Help on Scripts

2003-06-27 Thread Vince Hoffman
Not realy thecorrect list, you need a shell scripting list or newsgroup like comp.unix.shell however in bash something like ---cut here-- #!/bin/bash #enter date here (using your example) DATE=20030117 #set number here NUMBER=5100025 for file in PPD.$DATE.*