Shell Scripting

Shell Programming and Scripting
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Hello ,

Can any one suggest me that how copy only 3 characters and not more than that starting from "an"
As below
angio.txt
anbel.jpg
anheakla.txt

when i try to copy anheakla.txt should not get copied .
can some one suggest me ?

2

Could this help you ?

echo "angio.txt
anbel.jpg
anheakla.txt" | awk '/^an/{print substr($0,3,3)}'
3

Thanks Pravin,
I need a copy command which will copy only 3 characters after "an" not as anheakla.txt.
It should copy only angio.txt and anbel.jpg .

4

Hi

Not sure whether I understood your question:

cp an[a-z][a-z][a-z].*  target_dir

Guru.

5

Thanks Guru
Its working as expected...

6 
cp an???.* todir
7

Thank you..
This is also working fine.

8

One more

cp an???.*