cut file extension

[Heinrich Rebehn]

Owen Townend wrote:
> 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... ?
> 
$ file=file.name.ext
$ echo ${file%.*}
file.name

Is that what you want? :-)

-Heinrich