From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 2 08:30:31 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51DB91065670 for ; Wed, 2 Jun 2010 08:30:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (gate6.infracaninophile.co.uk [IPv6:2001:8b0:151:1::1]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB0F48FC1D for ; Wed, 2 Jun 2010 08:30:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from seedling.black-earth.co.uk (seedling.black-earth.co.uk [81.187.76.163]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id o528UI7o062390 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 2 Jun 2010 09:30:18 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Message-ID: <4C06169A.9090604@infracaninophile.co.uk> Date: Wed, 02 Jun 2010 09:30:18 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman Organization: Infracaninophile User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100317 Thunderbird/3.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matthias Apitz References: <4C06131A.6010107@comclark.com> <20100602082401.GA2876@current.Sisis.de> In-Reply-To: <20100602082401.GA2876@current.Sisis.de> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.96.1 at lucid-nonsense.infracaninophile.co.uk X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=2.0 required=5.0 tests=DKIM_ADSP_ALL,SPF_FAIL autolearn=no version=3.3.1 X-Spam-Level: ** X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on lucid-nonsense.infracaninophile.co.uk Cc: Aiza , "questions@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: command to strip suffix in .sh script X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 02 Jun 2010 08:30:31 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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 - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate JID: matthew@infracaninophile.co.uk Kent, CT11 9PW -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.14 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkwGFpoACgkQ8Mjk52CukIz2IQCfRPPnh+1+Y12iY9dz5MeO0P++ 80QAnishOceHvFymn4S9miFK8lemmlHQ =99QV -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----