Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2016 14:49:57 +0100 From: RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> To: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Deriving base port/package names Message-ID: <20160408144957.26ad363f@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <5707b24b.9143620a.1a679.ffffbb00SMTPIN_ADDED_MISSING@mx.google.com> References: <51300.1460083670@server1.tristatelogic.com> <5707b24b.9143620a.1a679.ffffbb00SMTPIN_ADDED_MISSING@mx.google.com>
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On Fri, 8 Apr 2016 06:29:31 -0700 (PDT)
Roger Marquis wrote:
> 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 $1 }'
>
> or:
>
> sed 's/-[0-9].*$//'
A port name can contain digits and hyphens, so this could remove
part of the name.
Miroslav's version is better because it requires that the part that's
stripped only has a hyphen as it's first character.
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