I'm writing a script where I have to use ls | grep and search for a file in the current directory. I am assigning the name of this file to a variable so it needs to be precise. My only problem is that the file that I am grepping for has a brother which happens to have a different extension. I want to pick out the right file and send it to the variable.

Heres an example just to clarify:

I am in /home/m/temp

in the script I say:

a=`ls | grep myFile`

the value now stored in a is: myFile.exe myfFile.dll

I only want to store myFile.exe

How would I do this? Thanks.

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Or why not just 'ls myFile'? Unless 'myFile' doesn't contain the full name of the file, in which case maybe 'ls myFile*'

say I had "myfile.exe" stored in $a. How would I delete only the ".exe" part of it (without the quotes)?

$b=$(basename ${a} .exe)


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