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Re: shorthand attempt at 'basename file .ext'


From: Paul Jarc
Subject: Re: shorthand attempt at 'basename file .ext'
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 17:09:00 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux)

Linda Walsh <bash@tlinx.org> wrote:
> > echo "${{f##*/}%$ext}" (but: -bash: ${{f##*/}%$ext}: bad substitution)
>
> Do I need to use an intermediate variable

Yes.  Unfortunately, the expansion operators work directly on
variables - not on arbitrary strings which may contain other
expansions.


paul




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