Re: [Help-bash] The best way to trim trailing .tiff or .tif?

[Greg Wooledge]

On Thu, Oct 04, 2012 at 09:02:39PM -0500, Peng Yu wrote:
> if [[ "$f" =~ \.*.tiff ]]

In addition to the extended globbing answer already given, you should
be aware that the overzealous use of regular expressions is not always
helpful.  This is a case that can be handled more elegantly by a simple
glob:

if [[ $f = *.tiff ]]

In fact, your regular expression test wasn't even correct, as you
neglected to anchor the RE at the start and end with ^ and $ respectively,
and you backslash-escaped the wrong period.