Re: [newbie] crazy zip command

[Paul]

On 01/09/2004 03:02 PM, Todd Slater wrote:

On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 06:21:40PM -0500, Rude Boy wrote:
 

Hi Todd,
	I'm glad that you reply my post. Actually, I did something like this:
for x in *.txt
do
	zip $x $x.txt // Since it have the same name
done
   

 

This would do it for you, I think:

for x in *.txt
do
   zip ${x%*.txt*} $x
done
%*.txt* cuts off everything from the contents of the variable after the 
text between asterisks, including that text.

Shell programming is such fun...
Paul
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