Hi Maurice!   
      
   > Weird characters showing up here   
      
       Indeed, and I don't know where they come from...  (Tried a copy & paste   
   again but those extra chars aren't visible...)   
      
      
   > so I'll take the liberty of reposting your code below.   
      
       Appreciate that!   
      
      
   > ----- ye ol' gpm cut n' paste starts   
   > file="thisfile.txt"   
   > echo "filename: ${file%.*}"   
   > echo "extension: ${file##*.}"   
   > ----- ye ol' gpm cut n' paste ends   
      
       Yes, that's what it was supposed to look like.   
      
      
      
      
   Jame   
      
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