cut file extension

[David Restall - System Administrator]

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
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