<div>On 2/21/08, David Restall - System Administrator <<a href="mailto:dave@restall.net">dave@restall.net</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, A bit of snipping is probably needed here :-) >Owen Townend wrote: >> On 2/20/08, David Restall - System Administrator <<a href="mailto:dave@restall.net">dave@restall.net</a>> wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>>> On 2/20/08, Germain Morbe <<a href="mailto:germain.morbe@web.de">germain.morbe@web.de</a>> wrote: >>>>> Hi all, >>>>> >>>>> im looking for a solution to strip the file extension >>>>> within a bash script. >>>>> >>>>> thanks Snip >>>> 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 ${file%.*} ><a href="http://file.name">file.name</a> > >Is that what you want? :-) Sed still works if you do :- echo file.part2.part3..name.ext | sed 's/\.[^.]*$//' but Heinrich has provided a far more elegant solution. It's no good if you're not using bash though :-) If you regularly encounter this kind of problem, have a look for regular expressions, once you have used them you will wonder how you got by without them :-) TTFN D ubuntu/users-2008-02-20.2.tx <a href="mailto:rebehn@ant.uni-bremen.de">rebehn@ant.uni-bremen.de</a> <a href="mailto:germain.morbe@web.de">germain.morbe@web.de</a> <a href="mailto:owen.townend@gmail.com">owen.townend@gmail.com</a> ubuntu-users +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Dave Restall, Computer Nerd, Cyclist, Radio Amateur G4FCU, Bodger | | Mob +44 (0) 7973 831245 Skype: dave.restall Radio: G4FCU | | email : <a href="mailto:dave@restall.net">dave@restall.net</a> Web : Not Ready Yet :-( | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | BOFH excuse #436: | | | | Daemon escaped from pentagram | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ </blockquote></div> Hey, Thanks, that regex makes sense (20-20 hindsight) turns out it was sed that I was confused about. Thanks for the clarity. cheers, Owen.