-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Am Sonntag, 1. September 2002 10:16 schrieb Phil: > Hello all, > > My shell script takes a jpeg file as the input like this: myscript > test.jpg. > > After some processing I then create an empty file in a subdirectory > named text like this: touch ../text/$1. > > The question is, how do I replace the suffix jpg with txt? In this case > I want to end up with a file called test.txt. > > My initial efforts have centred around sed s/jpg/txt/ and mv but without > success.
either try filename=`echo "$1" | grep sed "s/jpg/txt/g"` or filename=`basename $1 .jpg` if $1 is your filename to handle. Martin - -- - ------------------------------------------------------------ H E L I X Gesellschaft für Software & Engineering mbH - ------------------------------------------------------------ Hanauer Landstrasse 52 Telefon (069) 4789 35-30 60314 Frankfurt am Main Telefax (069) 4789 35-44 - ------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.helix-gmbh.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] - ------------------------------------------------------------ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9czsTBG198cnayKQRAuiVAJ0XoXOgcISv83T6Cn3F13e9d73omgCfTRoS 98tq0xNtkyBL/anvy1+oQ94= =Vw8T -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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