Date: Wed, 02 Jun 2010 09:30:18 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> Cc: Aiza <aiza21@comclark.com>, "questions@freebsd.org" <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: command to strip suffix in .sh script Message-ID: <4C06169A.9090604@infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20100602082401.GA2876@current.Sisis.de> References: <4C06131A.6010107@comclark.com> <20100602082401.GA2876@current.Sisis.de>
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On 02/06/2010 09:24:01, Matthias Apitz wrote:
> El día Wednesday, June 02, 2010 a las 04:15:22PM +0800, Aiza escribió:
>
>> I have this code
>>
>> archive_name=`echo -n "${fromarchive}" | tr -c '[:alnum:]' _`
>>
>> ` is the key under Esc key and ' key is next to enter key.
>>
>> fromarchive value is archivename-201006021514.34.tar.gz
>>
>> I want to strip the suffix -201006021514.34.tar.gz from the archivename.
>>
>> The archivename can be upper and lower case letters interspersed with _
>>
>>
>> Do I have syntax problem with the code? I get no error on it.
>>
>> Do I have the tr command coded correctly?
>>
>> Or should I be using something else instead of tr command?
>
> $ echo 'archivename-201006021514.34.tar.gz' | sed 's/-.*$//'
archive_name=${fromarchive%-*}
Cheers,
Matthew
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