Re: FSpecs

[Ray Olszewski]

All the approaches suggested for this exercise assume that one need not worry about generating a UNIQUE 8.3 filename from the long filename. Is that assumption appropriate to Ben's real, underlying problem? Or does it risk overwriting a file with a later one (e.g., shortnam-abcd.txt and shortnam-efgh.txt both become shortnam.txt)?

At 02:43 PM 11/15/02 +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

BEN RITCHEY wrote:
>
> Would it be possible in a Bash script to munge a
> Long File Name to the older DOS 8.3 format?
> In my case I need the first 8 characters and the
> last 4 (.xxx)

To which Paul Kraus replied:
> It would be a lot easier to do it with gawk or perl.

And hackob said:
> Use cut and/or gawk

Actually guys, all you need is bash:
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example="long-filename.to.munge.txt"
echo ${example%${example#????????}}.${example##*.}
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