Re: Lilypond & Ubuntu Help

[Jonathan Kulp]

Nice!  Thanks for this, Patrick!  It works just right.  Now I have to 
look at it to figure out *why* it works the way it does ;-)  I haven't 
used that sort of construct before...

Jonathan

Patrick Horgan wrote:

> Instead of basename you could use the built in string manipulation stuff 
> this:
>
> # determines the source filename
> srcfile=`basename $1`
>
> # removes the extension from source filename
> FILENOEXTENSION=${srcfile%.*}
>
> # determines directory
> OUTDIR="`dirname $1`"
>
> It does the same thing as basename, but more generally.  In particular 
> is says to strip off of the end of a string a pattern.  In this case our 
> pattern is simple, just a period followed by anything.
>
> Patrick

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