I just looked it up, it is ${%} and not ${#}. Here is an example,

for i in *.jpg; do
    filename=${i%.jpg}
    echo $filename
done


Sharad

PS: This is how filename matching was boing done in /etc/init.d
scripts (long time back, don't know about now).

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