Hello forum,

I am new to shellscripting.

My first goal is to write a script that verifies that for each file in one path there is an associated one in another path.

The association is deviated by a distinct 'part' of the filename(s). Therefore I wanted to work with substitution.

Here is what I have so far:

for i in /my/source/path/*
 do
  var=basename $i
  echo ${var//cutme/""}
 done

Try:

var=$(basename $i)

var=${i##*/}

It worked.
Thank you Scrutinizer.

So

var=$(some)

This is called command substitution.