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Contents of my "inputdir" is a set of files with filename like this:

$ ls -1 inputdir/
log.10.16.1253168140.txt
log.11.5.1253168345.txt
log.11.9.1253168347.txt
log.12.1.1253168347.txt
log.19.1.1253168140.txt

Directory "testcfgs" contains a set of config xmls.

$ ls -1 testcfgs/
cfg_10_16.xml
cfg_10_5.xml
cfg_11_5.xml
cfg_11_9.xml
cfg_12_1.xml
cfg_19_1.xml
cfg_19_2.xml
cfg_91_9.xml

Required:

For each file of name "log.X.Y.timestamp.txt" in "inputdir", copy the corresponding "cfg_X_Y.xml" config file from "testcfgs" to a directory say "requiredcfgs".

A simple practical bash one liner script:

$ for filename in $(ls -1 inputdir/)
> do
> X=$(echo "$filename" | cut -d"." -f2)
> Y=$(echo "$filename" | cut -d"." -f3)
> cp testcfgs/cfg_$X\_$Y.xml requiredcfgs/
> done

The two lines above for finding X and Y value can be replaced by a single line using 'eval with awk', like this:

$ for filename in $(ls -1 inputdir/)
> do
> eval $(echo "$filename" | awk -F "." '{print "X="$2";Y="$3}')
> cp testcfgs/cfg_$X\_$Y.xml requiredcfgs/
> done

Contents of "requiredcfgs" directory after execution of the above bash script.

$ ls -1 requiredcfgs/
cfg_10_16.xml
cfg_11_5.xml
cfg_11_9.xml
cfg_12_1.xml
cfg_19_1.xml

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