On Monday, September 8, 2003, at 03:19 PM, Soren Harward wrote:


On Mon 08 Sep 2003 at 14:45:30, Hans Fugal said:
* Grant Robinson [Mon,  8 Sep 2003 at 14:37 -0600]
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Nah, bash will do this all by itself:


for f in auto*; do cp ${f} targetdir/bongo-${f##auto-}; done

Now that is a cool trick, and it worked perfectly. Thanks, Soren. Care to give a more detailed explanation on what the ${f## does?


Grant


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