I'm dumping a string of numbers anywhere between 1-6 figures into a file.

Example 1: cat filea
23754

What I'd like to do is awk the last number of the sting; in this case it would be the "4". There will be only one string of numbers in this file at any given time and I will need only the last number.

Example 2: cat filea
149

In this case, I need the number "9".

I have tried to RTFB, but can't find the answer.

Thanks, Mike

if you want to use awk,
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echo "12345" | awk -F "" '{print NF}'
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or if you use bash
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# var="12345"
# echo ${var#"${var%?}"}
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hi ther,

m having a .bat file having a line as below:

cd /apps/bss/BatchProg/bss; ls -l *.sh

How i can i possibly get the customized output like how to use 'cut' or 'awk' with ls???

m running this bat file in COMMAND PROMPT.

Any help will be really appreciated.

i guess the first step is to read the docs?
anyway, i assume you are using unix on windows?
this command: cd /apps/bss/BatchProg/bss; ls -l *.sh can be shortened to
ls -l /apps/bss/BatchProg/bss/*sh.

anyway, describe what you want to get out from your ls -l output. do you want to get file size? time ??

Hey ghostdog thanks for the help. You were right with the bash code. It made my job easy thanks.

Mike

Hey ghostdog

actually ls -l iss giving me 5 column output which is permissions, user, file size, date, time, filename. I only want to have file size, date and filename as the output.

I m actually new to this programming...
thanks for your help again.

my ls -l output is different
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ls -l | awk 'NR>1{printf "%s,%s,%s-%s-%s\n",$9,$5,$6,$7,$8}'
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my col 9 is filename, column 5 is size, column 6-8 is date/time field....substitute for yours as necessary

thanks a lot its working perfectly fine...

just one more question plz

m using the same script

cd /apps/bss/BatchProg/bss; ls -l *.sh > file1.txt

whats the simplest and easiest method to add DATE stamp on the filename i.e. file120070517.txt

i tried this :

file1%month%%day%%year% , it worked yesterday but for some reason its not working anymore and i m pretty sure i didnt delete anything.

can u help me with this as well plz

looking forward for a reply soon

are you using a combination of batch + shell scripting? can you describe your environment? i guess if you can use ls, cd, and those normal shell commands , you can also use the unix date utitlity. without further info, i can only show you the how i do it in Unix.
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thedate=$(date "+%Y%m%d")
mv "$filename" "$filename$thedate"
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m using a batch script in command prompt. And m diaplaying the output from a remote server. Finally m storing the output in a txt file with the date on it. So that later on I can compare the files and get to know the daily changes in the server.

the actual and complete script is :

plink -ssh -pw XXXXXXXXX sr54221@nus730pn cd /apps/bss/BatchProg/bss; ls -l *.sh >> nus730pn%(date "+%Y%m%d");