cut file extension
David Restall - System Administrator
dave at restall.net
Wed Feb 20 12:44:43 UTC 2008
Hi,
> On 2/20/08, Germain Morbe <germain.morbe at web.de> wrote:
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > im looking for a solution to strip the file extension
> > within a bash script.
> >
> > thanks
> >
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> Hey,
> Look into `sed`. Something like this should do it
> `sed -e 's/.*$//'`
>
> That's from the top of my head though, check it first!
man basename may be useful :-)
and the Owen's sed command isn't quite right, use 's/\..*$//'.
The cut command could also be used using a delimter of . and so could
awk. TMTOWTDI :-)
TTFN
D
ubuntu/users-2008-02-20.tx germain.morbe at web.de
owen.townend at gmail.com
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