Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 14:50:48 +1100 (EST) From: Iain Templeton <iain@research.canon.com.au> To: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "set -A" Bourne script - a nogo on FreeBSD Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.4.10.10009151445550.12416-100000@elph.research.canon.com.au> In-Reply-To: <200009150325.e8F3Pns34741@thought.org>
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On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, Gary Kline wrote:
> According to Gregory Bond:
> >
> > > Seems FreeBSD's Bourne shell's "set" command doesn't support -A.
> >
> > AFAICT "set -A" is a ksh-ism, not a bourne-ism. On my Solaris systems, ksh
> > has "set -A", but neither bash nor sh do. Install one of the ksh verisions
> > from the ports.
> >
>
> I have a csh or sh question--sorry for asking it this way;
> but is there any rational way of turning a file named
>
> foo.c to foo.o or simply foo with or without calling
> non-builtin programs? I think I remember a sh wizard
> showing me some bizarre sh command...but not sure it wasn't
> a dream!
>
How about from sh(1) (albeit rather poorly copied)
${parameter%word}
Remove Smallest Suffix Pattern. The word is expanded to produce a
pattern. The parameter expansion then results in parameter, with the
smallest portion of the suffix matched by the pattern deleted.
${parameter%%word}
Remove Largest Suffix Pattern. The word is expanded to produce a
pattern. The parameter expansion then results in parameter, with the
largest portion of the suffix matched by the pattern deleted.
eg...
for i in *.ps
do
t=${i%.ps}
echo $t
~/bin/gs <blah> -sOutputFile=$t.ujw $i
done
Iain
Assuming that make foo.o wasn't what you meant
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