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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Truncate multiple file extensions Post 302133544 by summer_cherry on Friday 24th of August 2007 01:06:53 AM
Old 08-24-2007
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Hi try this one:

Code:
echo "number"
read num
who | nawk -v n=$num 'BEGIN{
str="file"
for (i=1;i<=n;i++)
str=sprintf("%s%s",str,".txt")
}
END{
print str
printf("%stxt\n",substr(str,1,index(str,".")))
}'

 

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SOOPERLOOPER(1) 						   User Commands						   SOOPERLOOPER(1)

NAME
SooperLooper - looping sampler SYNOPSIS
sooperlooper [options...] DESCRIPTION
SooperLooper is a live looping sampler capable of immediate loop recording, overdubbing, multiplying, reversing and more. It allows for multiple simultaneous multi-channel loops limited only by your computer's available memory. OPTIONS
-l <num> , --loopcount=<num> number of loopers to create (default is 1) -c <num> , --channels=<num> channel count for each looper (default is 2) -t <numsecs> , --looptime=<num> number of seconds of loop memory per channel (default is 40), at least -L <pathname> , --load-session=<pathname> load initial session from pathname -D <yes/no>, --discrete-io=[yes] initial loops should have discrete input and output ports (default yes) -p <num> , --osc-port=<num> udp port number for OSC server (default is 9951) -j <str> , --jack-name=<str> jack client name, default is sooperlooper_1 -S <str> , --jack-server-name=<str> specify jack server name -m <str> , --load-midi-binding=<str> loads midi binding from file or preset -q , --quiet do not output status to stderr -h , --help this usage output -V , --version show version only COPYRIGHT
Copyright 2007 Jesse Chappell SEE ALSO
slconsole(1), slregister(1), slgui(1) AUTHORS
This manual page was written by Alessio Treglia <quadrispro@ubuntu.com> for the Debian project (and may be used by others). SooperLooper 1.6.14 February 2010 SOOPERLOOPER(1)
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