[ale] stripping filename extension in bash

[David S. Jackson]

On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 07:01:14PM -0500 Bob <rstickel at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> How about
> 
> n=$(( $(expr match "$i" '.*\.') - 1 ))
> [ $n -gt 0 ] && i=${i:0:$n}

Hey, this is spiffy.  Two goodies learned from this: man expr and
a new use for ${var:int:int}

Thanks!  :-)

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