====== Advanced bash scripting ====== http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/index.html ====== Bash Commands ====== ===== Finding a size of a file ===== file_size=$(stat -c%s "$FILENAME") ===== Wait for user to strike a key ===== read -p "Press [Enter] key to start backup..." ===== Filename from Filepath ===== Extracting File Name with extension and without extension given full file path filewithpath=/home/name/path/subpath/etc/abc.txt filename=$(basename $filewithpath) filenoext=${filename%%.*} filename will have abc.txt filenoext will have abc