#!/bin/bash filename=$1 filenameonly=${filename##*/} filenameonly=${filenameonly%%.fits} echo $filenameonly #first construct the correct file name # filenameonly=${entry##*/} # year="2011" # month=${filenameonly} #second construct the destination path. # filenameonly=${entry##*/} # pathonly=${entry%$filenameonly} # extrapathonly=${pathonly#$sourceFolder/} # targetFolder=$destFolder"/"$extrapathonly