cut file extension

[Owen Townend]

On 2/20/08, David Restall - System Administrator <dave at restall.net> wrote:
>
> 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


ahah, that's closer to what I was aiming for, but it still doesn't
account for files like '
file.name.ext' cutting them to 'file' though  it should only match the end
of the line... ?

cheers,
Owen.


D
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