Hi, I am making a script in which I have to do the following :

• Search for files containing Dev*.txt in the current directory.
• put the list of file in another file. (can be achieved using "print `ls Dev*.txt > Dev.txt`;") Now dev.txt has the list of every text file starting with Dev.
• put the contents of every file listed in this dev.txt file to a file. (ex:res.txt) (So res.txt should contain contents of every text file starting with Dev.
• check the contents of every file to c for a word starting with any number of characters and ending with atleast 3 digits .. (ex: JK001 , TLL006666).
• If the string is found then print the first 2 lines of the file ..

can u guys help me wit this ?? Thanks junior monk

Edit kudra, 2001-10-31 Added markup

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