cut file extension

[Owen Townend]

On 2/20/08, Owen Townend <owen.townend at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 2/20/08, Germain Morbe <germain.morbe at web.de> wrote:
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> > Hi all,
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> > im looking for a solution to strip the file extension
> > within a bash script.
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> > thanks
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Hey,
>   Look into `sed`. Something like this should do it
>   `sed -e 's/.*$//'`
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>   That's from the top of my head though, check it first!
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> cheers,
> Owen.
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ehem, sorry,
  just realised that wipes the whole line...
  Try `sed -e 's/.mp3$//'` for a single extension.
  `sed -e 's/.mp3$/.wma/'` to change it.
  `sed -e 's/....$//'`  to cut a three letter extension and the '.'
  etc...

cheers,
Owen.
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