On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 10:47 PM, Erez D <erez0...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 11:15 PM, Oleg Goldshmidt <p...@goldshmidt.org>
> wrote:
>>
>> Well, if you insist, assuming that all the files have
>> "<whatever>input_" in the beginning, you can use
>> ${parameter/pattern/string} substitution, e.g., for string $foo use
>>
>> $ basename ${foo/*input_/} .txt
>>
>> Hope it helps,
>
> how does that extract the '000' from '<path>/input_000.txt' ?

Well, "${foo/*input_/}" strips "input_" and whatever precedes it, and
basename strips the ".txt" extension from what is left, leaving you
with "000". I thought it was clear, sorry if it wasn't.


-- 
Oleg Goldshmidt | p...@nospam.goldshmidt.org

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