david wrote:
$ for i in *.tif ; convert $i $i.jpg; done
$ for i in $i.jpg ; do mv $i `echo $i | sed s/.tif//`; done
Apart from specific examples, where do I look in the bash book for a better
way to remove the <.tif> part of the output filename, or other such
substitutions?
OTTOMH, there are some interpolation constructs in bash to help with this:
${VARIABLE#string}
${VARIABLE##string}
${VARIABLE%string}
${VARIABLE%%string}
and saving "substitute" (best) for last:
${VARIABLE/from/to}
in your case perhaps: mv $i ${i/.tif/}
All of the above are described somewhere in the 4000+ pages
of the bash manual ;)
cheers
rickw
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