Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2010 03:40:27 -0500 From: Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com> 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: <AANLkTilwTDsgKwVCHPjFqr-6bvJKiAUGCb0pXGviDUbY@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20100602082401.GA2876@current.Sisis.de> References: <4C06131A.6010107@comclark.com> <20100602082401.GA2876@current.Sisis.de>
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On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 3:24 AM, Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> wrote:
> El d=EDa Wednesday, June 02, 2010 a las 04:15:22PM +0800, Aiza escribi=F3=
:
>
> > I have this code
> >
> > archive_name=3D`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/-.*$//'
>
>
One more
echo 'archivename-201006021514.34.tar.gz' | awk -F - '{print $1}'
--=20
Adam Vande More
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