please ignore this. it is just a 10line thing after I test it for a while..

On Sat, May 9, 2015 at 3:49 PM, ping song <[email protected]> wrote:
> experts:
> I just came across a requirement to generate a small script for the
> following task:
>
> say In a folder I have Files for example below:
>
> xyz.20150228.zip
> xyz.20150203.zip
> xyz.20150202.zip
> abc.20150203.zip
> weekly_pc.20150327.zip
> weekly_pc.20150314.zip
> weekly_pc.20150304.zip
>
>
> the script should examine each files and keep only the latest one per
> file name.  In the above files it should keep only  these
>
>
> xyz.20150228.zip
> abc.20150203.zip
> weekly_pc.20150327.zip
>
> I think this is really easy with perl, tcl or python. but is it
> efficiently doablewith pure bash (and those classic tools like sort,
> awk, etc)?
>
> need some advise from shell experts here.
>
> regards
> ping

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