On 2010-08-28 20:54:42 +1000, Brian May wrote: > When the solution is easy I don't see why we don't just do it. > > br...@andean:~$ i="cat's meow.tar.gz" > br...@andean:~$ echo "`basename "$i" .tar.gz`" > cat's meow > > (yes, the nested quotes don't seem to matter)
They matter if you have consecutive spaces, for instance. And this is not sufficient: xvii:~> i="--foo bar.tar.gz" xvii:~> echo "`basename "$i" .tar.gz`" basename: invalid option -- '-' Try `basename --help' for more information. You need: xvii:~> echo "`basename -- "$i" .tar.gz`" --foo bar -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Arénaire project (LIP, ENS-Lyon) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100831082331.gb26...@prunille.vinc17.org
