Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 14:44:54 +1100 From: "Andrew Reilly" <areilly@bigpond.net.au> To: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> Cc: Gregory Bond <gnb@itga.com.au>, Randall Hopper <aa8vb@nc.rr.com>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "set -A" Bourne script - a nogo on FreeBSD Message-ID: <20000915144454.A30136@gurney.reilly.home> In-Reply-To: <200009150325.e8F3Pns34741@thought.org>; from kline@thought.org on Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 08:25:48PM -0700 References: <200009150310.OAA26100@lightning.itga.com.au> <200009150325.e8F3Pns34741@thought.org>
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On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 08:25:48PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
> foo.c to foo.o or simply foo with or without calling
> non-builtin programs?
Look in man sh(1) for parameter expansion syntax like:
a=foo.c
echo ${a%.c}.o
There's also %%, # and ## to give smallest or largest matches at
the end or beginning of the string. I think that this is part
of the Posix sh syntax, so you'll probably find it pretty widely
implemented by now.
--
Andrew
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