[Sheflug] Easy bash question

[José Luis Gómez Dans <j.l.gomez-dans [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,
    I have heaps and heaps of files in directories I need to convert
(they are eps files that need to be converted into Fig's, using
pstoedit). I have used a simple loop to do this:
for i in $(ls *.ps); do pstoedit -f xfig <blah> $i > $i.fig ; done

    This is fine, but my_file.eps turns out to be my_file.eps.fig,
which is not aesthetically pleasing (and obviously a source of much
annoyance :D). So I was wondering, what's the best way of trimming the
extension from my $i loop variable? Do I have to use sed for this? Do
I actually need to read the manual? 

    Thanks,
    José

    
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