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From: Iain Templeton <iain@research.canon.com.au>
To: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org>
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Subject: Re: "set -A" Bourne script - a nogo on FreeBSD
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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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