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Quote:>So is there any way to take a file name in a shell script, chop off
>it's suffix and add a new one?

f.ex:
basename foo.bar .bar           produces
foo

..Wolf

I want a simple shell script that takes a file, runs it through TeX
then dvips and prints the resulting postscript file, i.e. the command
``tex-print myfile.tex'' should run the following commands:

tex myfile.tex
dvips myfile.dvi
lpr myfile.ps

The problem I have is that if I pass ``myfile.tex'' to a shell script
``tex-print'' as a command line variable then $1 = ``myfile.tex'' so a
simple script like

tex $1
dvips $1
lpr $1

won't work.  Also, the program that calles ``tex-print'' passes the
full file name ``myfile.tex'' and can't be configured to just pass
``myfile'' without the suffix.

So is there any way to take a file name in a shell script, chop off
it's suffix and add a new one?

Thanks for your help

Rich Schiek

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#!/bin/sh
PATH=/usr/bin:$PATH
ARG="myfile.tex"
BASE=`basename $ARG .tex`
#  BASE is now 'myfile'
DVI=$BASE.dvi
PS=$BASE.ps

echo $ARG $BASE $DVI $PS

Will output:

myfile.tex myfile myfile.dvi myfile.ps

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: f.ex:
: basename foo.bar .bar         produces
: foo

Or if you have a shell that supports it (csh, tcsh, and my favorite zsh) you
could use Environment Variable Modifiers.  For example:

#!/bin/zsh
NAME=$1:r
tex ${NAME}.tex
dvips ${NAME}.dvi
lpr ${NAME}.ps
rm ${NAME}.ps

You'd probably want to do some error checking or something though (so it
doesn't continue when tex fails with millions of errors. :)

Hope this helps.

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