Re: Copy a file one hundred times

["H.S." <hs.samix@gmail.com>]

Thomas Preud'homme wrote:

>      filevar=$1 # The file to copy a hundred time
>      basefile=${filevar%.[^.]*} # We delete all the end from the last dot (eg 
> a dot followed by any others caracters)
>      extension=${filevar##^.*.} # We delete all the beginning until the last 


Just for reference, this pattern matching and chopping is explained more
with examples here:
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-bash.html#N1010B


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