Stripping the extension name (file.ext) from files (set, foreach commands)

[tuathan]

I want to set a number of files of the same type (.ext) equal to the variable FILES without the file extension part of the filename (or then remove the file extensions)...
e.g.

$ls

file1.ext file2.ext file3.ext

$set FILES=`ls *.ext`

foreach FILE ($FILES) #now, here FILES = file1, file2, file3 (without file extension)

Is this possible or is there another way of doing it?

thanks.

[i92guboj]

I want to set a number of files of the same type (.ext) equal to the variable FILES without the file extension part of the filename (or then remove the file extensions)...
e.g.

$ls

file1.ext file2.ext file3.ext

$set FILES=`ls *.ext`

foreach FILE ($FILES) #now, here FILES = file1, file2, file3 (without file extension)

Is this possible or is there another way of doing it?

thanks.

Don't use ls unless there's no alternative.

For example:

for file in /path/to/*.ext
do
  i=${file%.*}
  echo "$i"
done

Read more about the bash string mangling capabilities on the internet, for example:

Variable Mangling in Bash with String Operators