[svlug] How to print many html files at on time?

[Chris Waters]

On Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 05:15:01PM -0400, Bill Jonas wrote:

>  lpr `echo $i |sed -e 's/\.html$/.ps/'`

This can be more efficiently expressed as:

  lpr ${i%%.html}.ps

Another option is to use the basename command:

 lpr `basename $i .html`.ps

Which still saves one process slot, and is probably a little faster.

cheers
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