[ale] stripping filename extension in bash

[Jason Day]

On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 03:45:08PM -0500, Christopher Bergeron wrote:
> Does anyone know how I can strip the extension from a filename in a bash 
> script?
> 
> Here's my script:
> 
> #!/bin/bash
> echo USE bergeron
> for i in `\ls *.jpg`

change this to:
  for i in *.jpg

> do
i=`echo $i | sed -e 's/\..*//'`
> echo "INSERT INTO pictures VALUES ('','$i','','','');"
> done

Note that this will ONLY work if all the filenames have only one '.' in
them.  If, for instance, you have a file called "foo.bar.jpg", it will
get translated to "foo", which is probably not what you want :) 
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