Thomas Preud'homme wrote:
> filevar=$1 # The file to copy a hundred time
> basefile=${filevar%.[^.]*} # We delete all the end from the last dot (eg
> a dot followed by any others caracters)
> extension=${filevar##^.*.} # We delete all the beginning until the last
Just for reference, this pattern matching and chopping is explained more
with examples here:
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-bash.html#N1010B
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