[ale] echo filename (without extension)

[Geoffrey]

for fn in *;do

echo ${fn%.*}
done

will strip anything following the tailing '.'

your assignment, how does this differ from :


echo ${fn%%.*}


Michael D. Hirsch wrote:
> On Tuesday 17 December 2002 05:03 pm, Christopher Bergeron wrote:
> 
>>>echo `basename $i`
>>
>>hrm, that one doesn't seem to work:
>>
>>[root at www pictures]$ echo `basename Mvc-382f.jpg`
>>Mvc-382f.jpg
> 
> 
> if you know it ends in ".jpg" you can do
> 	basename $i .jpg
> But if you don't then you need to be trikier with regexps.
> 
> Michael
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