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| 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)
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> 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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