Micha Silver <mi...@arava.co.il>: > > Samber's method will surely work, but you might more simply try as > > follows: > > > > # start grass in a location which matches the txt file data > > # change to the directory where your txt files are, then do > > for infile in *.txt; do outrast=`basename ${infile} .txt`; r.in.xyz > > in=${infile} out=${outrast} fs=,; done
Hanlie Pretorius wrote: > This works nicely, except that my input files have names like: > 3B42.000201.0.6.nc.lieb.txt > 3B42.000201.3.6.nc.lieb.txt > > and I want the output rasters to be named > 3B42.000201.0.6 > 3B42.000201.3.6 > > In fact, it would be best if they could be named: > 0201.0.6 > 0201.3.6 > > I'm struggling with this string manipulation in the shell scripting > language. Try the following (note the backticks in the beginning before "echo" and in the end as well): output=`echo "${infile}" | cut -d"." -f2,3,4 | sed 's/^00//'` Nikos _______________________________________________ grass-user mailing list grass-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-user