Re: Problems working with bash.

[Jean Pierre LeJacq <jplejacq@quoininc.com>]

On Sat, 22 Mar 1997, Alexander Lazarevic wrote:

> - In a tcsh I can do $var:r, which gives me 'name' if $var contaned
> 'name.ext'. How can I do this with bash?

   This will strip the shortest suffix that matches ".*"

      ${var%.*}

   This will strip the longest suffix that matches ".*"

      ${var%.*}

   There are several other approaches.  It's all documented in
   the bash man page.

> - In tcsh I can type anything on the command line and do a search on the
> history list matching this input by pressing ALT-P. How do I do that
> with bash?

      Ctrl-R

-- 
Jean Pierre