I have a c shell script which has the following two lines, it creates a directory and copies some files into it. My question is the following - the files being copied look like this abc.hello, abc.name, abc.date, etc... How can i strip the abc and just copy them over as .hello, .name, .date.. and so forth. I'm new to this.. any help will be appreciated!
mkdir -p $home_dir$param
cp /usr/share/skel/* $home_dir$param
You're looking for something like basename:
In Bash, for example, you could get the base name, file suffix like this:
filepath=/my/folder/readme.txt
filename=$(basename "$filepath") # $filename == "readme.txt"
extension="${filename##*.}" # $extension == "txt"
rootname="${filename%.*}" # $rootname == "readme"
ADDENDUM:
The key takeaway is "basename". Refer to the "man basename" page I linked to above. Here's another example that should make things clearer:
basename readme.txt .txt # prints "readme"
"basename" is a standard *nix command. It works in any shell; it's available on most any platform.
Going forward, I would strongly discourage you from writing scripts in csh, if you can avoid it:
