neato then, just need to remember that it exists now

i am happy that i found out about the for i in * notation!



On 23/07/2004, at 9:58 PM, Ken Foskey wrote:

On Fri, 2004-07-23 at 08:47, Ben de Luca wrote:
well the file names appear to be well structured, and I have never seen
the basename cmd before :). I use types of unix how common is the
command? it looks like it have been around for a while.


if i was worried about extra .  I might use.
BASE=`echo ${FILE} | awk -F ".log$" '{print $1}'

For what it is worth it is extremely portable. More portable than awk :-)

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KenF
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