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06-11-2007

rudoraj

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manipulate a passed in parameter

I am passing a file name as a parameter to shell script
the parameter is getfile.txt.gpg

how do i process this parameter to get name like getfile.txt only and eleminate the .gpg text??

Thanks in advance

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