Re: [Sheflug] Easy bash question

[David Holden <dh [at] xxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 27 Oct 2003 11:14 am, José Luis Gómez Dans wrote:
> 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


for i in *.ps;
do
  x=`basename $i .ps`
  newfile="${x}.fig"
  pstoedit -f xfig <blah> $i > $newfile
done


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