Stephen, I'll have to start waging jihad against you. In this case, though, aesthetics of the code speaks for itself. How can you even dream of comparing my beautiful, well structured and tidy perl code with the monstrosity below? -- Mladen Gogala A & E TV Network Ext. 1216 > -----Original Message----- > From: Stephen.Lee@xxxxxxxx [mailto:Stephen.Lee@xxxxxxxx] > Sent: Friday, September 10, 2004 12:22 PM > To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: RE: Splitting Files (AIX 5.2) > > > > Run this after doing your split command. > ( We don't need no stinkin' Perl. :-)) ) > > #!/bin/ksh > > COUNT=1 > > for i in `ls -1 93_11_w2_.[a-z][a-z]* 2> /dev/null`; do > j=`echo "$COUNT:$i" | /usr/bin/nawk -F: '{printf("%s%04d", > substr($2,1,9), $1)'}` > /usr/bin/mv "$i" "$j" > COUNT=$(( $COUNT + 1 )) > done -- To unsubscribe - mailto:oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx&subject=unsubscribe To search the archives - //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/