Comments on: Shell variables

By: Yves Van Walle

Yves Van Walle — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 10:40:57 +0000

Excelent! just what I looking for!

By: Dean

Dean — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 22:42:15 +0000

Nice work Allan, just what I was looking for, had no idea where to start with the search/replace stuff. Nicely written, easy/clear to read :-)

By: Allan Odgaard

Allan Odgaard — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 03:51:18 +0000

kyle: where do you do this (bash, TextMate, …)? How do you output the value? And does ‘echo ${TM_FILEPATH}’ alone output something?

By: kyle

kyle — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 20:41:30 +0000

I can't get any of this to work...

i do the ${TM_FILEPATH/Users/Home} and nothing shows up..

can someone send me a same script that actually works

By: marios

marios — Sat, 07 Oct 2006 23:59:50 +0000

Terrific, just came across this, thank you so much Allan. I just ported some of these excellent examples over to a new Bash Tutorial Bundle that I created, so I can memorize the Syntax a little better and tool-tip test, what I'm doing.

regards, marios

By: Allan Odgaard

Allan Odgaard — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 00:54:32 +0000

marios: If you want to cut the extension of a filename (contained in a variable) you can do something like "${VARIABLE%.*}". You would combine that with basename or have to do two variable replacements to also cut the directory part of the path.

By: marios

marios — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 00:24:49 +0000

What I am trying to figure out is, what would be the best way to shop off both the suffix and the file-path , to retain just the filename without extension. I had a look at the man page, but couldn't find any special notation for such a task.

regards, marios

By: domenico

domenico — Mon, 26 Sep 2005 16:22:05 +0000

allan pwnz us all :)

By: zzen

zzen — Mon, 26 Sep 2005 13:07:34 +0000

Excellent tips, thank you! Geez – and I thought I knew a lot about shells…