Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2016 06:29:31 -0700 (PDT) From: Roger Marquis <marquis@roble.com> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Deriving base port/package names In-Reply-To: <51300.1460083670@server1.tristatelogic.com> References: <51300.1460083670@server1.tristatelogic.com>
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Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
> what would be a proper sort of sed command to extract
> _just_ the port/package names, without the version numbers attached?
This has changed in the past so may not currently be 100% correct but
these should work:
awk -F'-[0-9]' '{ print $1 }'
or:
sed 's/-[0-9].*$//'
It's a good question in any case and the answer{,s} should probably be
added to pkg(8)'s EXAMPLES.
Roger
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