Print values of an array while stripping out some parts of the string

Question

Is there a more efficient way to run this? I am especially interested in a way which perhaps does not require a for loop...

shopt -s nullglob

file=
declare -a ARRAY1
ARRAY1=( ~lettus_*.sh )
for file in ${ARRAY1[@]}
do
    ##
    ## Get <name> from /some/path/lettus_name.sh
    ##

    # remove .sh extension
    file=${file%.sh}

    #  remove full path up to and including lettus_
    file=${file//*lettus_}

    echo $file
done

shopt -u nullglob

Answer 1

1. I'm assuming that file=${file//*lettus_} is supposed to be file=${file##*lettus_}.

2. Don't do file=. There is no reason to declare the file variable before-hand. Using it is a the loop variable automatically creates it.

3. Get rid of the temporary ARRAY1 variable (which fyi is not a good variable name). Just do for file in lettus_*.sh. In fact, since you don't quote ${ARRAY1[@]}, word-splitting would make your program fail in some cases.

4. Why do you want a more efficient way? This should run in a split-second unless you have a million files.