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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