<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 2/20/08, <b class="gmail_sendername">David Restall - System Administrator</b> <<a href="mailto:dave@restall.net">dave@restall.net</a>> wrote:</span><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,<br><br>> On 2/20/08, Germain Morbe <<a href="mailto:germain.morbe@web.de">germain.morbe@web.de</a>> wrote:<br>> ><br>> > Hi all,<br>> ><br>> > im looking for a solution to strip the file extension<br>
> > within a bash script.<br>> ><br>> > thanks<br>> ><br>> > --<br>> > ubuntu-users mailing list<br>> > <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a><br>
> > Modify settings or unsubscribe at:<br>> > <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a><br>> ><br>><br>> Hey,<br>> Look into `sed`. Something like this should do it<br>
> `sed -e 's/.*$//'`<br>><br>> That's from the top of my head though, check it first!<br><br>man basename may be useful :-)<br><br>and the Owen's sed command isn't quite right, use 's/\..*$//'.<br>
<br>The cut command could also be used using a delimter of . and so could<br>awk. TMTOWTDI :-)<br><br>TTFN</blockquote><div><br>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... ?<br>
<br>cheers,<br>Owen.<br></div><br><br><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">
D<br>ubuntu/users-2008-02-20.tx <a href="mailto:germain.morbe@web.de">germain.morbe@web.de</a><br> <a href="mailto:owen.townend@gmail.com">owen.townend@gmail.com</a><br>
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