'basename' can be a useful tool:
amit0 ~ # cd /tmp
amit0 tmp # ls *.tif
1.tif 2.tif
amit0 tmp # for f in *.tif;do echo convert $f "$(basename $f
\.tif).jpg";done
convert 1.tif 1.jpg
convert 2.tif 2.jpg
Though in this case, I think variable expansion is more elegant. basename
strips the path from the tif's, which you probably don't want...
HTH
Amit
On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 7:56 AM, Rick Welykochy <r...@praxis.com.au> wrote:
> david wrote:
>
> $ for i in *.tif ; convert $i $i.jpg; done
>> $ for i in $i.jpg ; do mv $i `echo $i | sed s/.tif//`; done
>>
>> Apart from specific examples, where do I look in the bash book for a
>> better
>> way to remove the <.tif> part of the output filename, or other such
>> substitutions?
>>
>
> OTTOMH, there are some interpolation constructs in bash to help with this:
>
> ${VARIABLE#string}
> ${VARIABLE##string}
>
> ${VARIABLE%string}
> ${VARIABLE%%string}
>
> and saving "substitute" (best) for last:
>
> ${VARIABLE/from/to}
>
> in your case perhaps: mv $i ${i/.tif/}
>
> All of the above are described somewhere in the 4000+ pages
> of the bash manual ;)
>
> cheers
> rickw
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