On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 05:07:43PM +0100, Paul wrote: > This would do it for you, I think: > > for x in *.txt > do > zip ${x%*.txt*} $x > done > > %*.txt* cuts off everything from the contents of the variable after the > text between asterisks, including that text.
Wow, I didn't know you could do that; much more efficient than calling sed! Thanks for the knowledge. Todd
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