On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 01:36:31PM -0500, Brian Henning wrote:
> I want it to be able to get a filename without the extention on the end.
> [...]
> file.mp3
>
> i would like it to return 'file'.
Well, I like the following solution, because it doesn't fork:
FILE=file.mp3
echo ${FILE%.*}
bye,
Gerhard