I'm trying to create a script that will loop through files that have their filenames written in the following format: yyyymmdd.hh.filename.

The script is called with:

./loopscript.sh 20091026.00 23
./loopscript.sh 20091026.11 15
./loopscript.sh 20091026.09 20091027.17

The need is for the script to check each hour between those two given dates/hours.

e.g. 

cat 20091026.00.filename |more
cat 20091026.01.filename |more
...
cat 20091026.23.filename |more
cat 20091027.01.filename |more
cat 20091027.02.filename |more
...

and so on.

any idea how to go about this? I don't have any difficulty with standard 0 - x loops. or simple for loops. Just not sure how to go about the above.

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