I'm writing a shell script in which I need to be able to pull a portion of the file name out. I'm testing with the following code:
x="O1164885.DAT"
y=`ls -ltr *${x}|awk '{print substr($0,3)}'`
echo ${x}|awk '{print substr($0,3)}'
echo "y="$y
I can echo it to the screen just fine but I can't figure out how to store it back into a script variable.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks!