Bash Concatenation

alieas · 09-04-2006, 01:23 PM

Learning a little bit about bash scripting:

I would like to concatenate a file name while using "tiff2pdf". The original filename is $FILE.

tiff2pdf $FILE -o $FILE+".pdf"

I am looking for the correct syntax to attach the ".pdf" extension to the filename. It would be even better if it could remove the .TIF and replace it with .PDF, can anyone give me the correct syntax for this operation?

Thank you,

-Joe

druuna · 09-04-2006, 01:40 PM

Hi,

$FILE.pdf
or
$FILE".pdf"
or
${FILE}.pdf

All of them work, and there are more

Hope this helps.

spirit receiver · 09-04-2006, 01:42 PM

You can use someting like

Code:

FILE="something.tif"; echo "${FILE%.tif}.pdf"

alieas · 09-04-2006, 01:45 PM

Excellent, thanks alot guys. I'll have to guy buy a bash scriping book