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sindi keesan wrote:
>
> I think I ran across seq in 'shell scripting 101' on the web, 
> under 'sort'.

Both seq and sort are in BL3.

> for i in *.ppm; do ppmtopgm $i | pgmtopbm | pamcut -75 top > $i.pbm; done
>
> Bleach produced par5-00001.ppm.pbm.
> Is there a simple way to remove the ppm from the file name 
> by adding something to the above script?  

Instead of:  > $i.pbm; done
Try this:    > ${i%.*}.pbm; done

That is:  dollar open-curly i percent period asterisk close-curly

There's some quite powerful stuff hiding in BL3.  :-)

Cheers,
Steven

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