On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 11:07 AM, Johnny Rosenberg <gurus.knugum at gmail.com> wrote: > I have read some about those built in substring tools built into Bash, > but still I don't understand them enough to use them. Or use expr: File="03. Rock Nuts.flac" echo `expr "$File2" : '.*\. \(.*\)\..*'` -wes