<div>On 2/20/08, Germain Morbe <<a href="mailto:germain.morbe@web.de">germain.morbe@web.de</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left: 0; margin-left: 0.80ex; border-left-color: #cccccc; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex"> Hi all, im looking for a solution to strip the file extension within a bash script. thanks -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </blockquote></div> 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! cheers, Owen.