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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

> > 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

> Cheers,
> Steven

That worked perfectly this morning and it is much simpler than the long 
complicated solution involving 'cut' that my partner was working on.

BL does many things more economically.

Sindi