command to strip suffix in .sh script

Polytropon freebsd at edvax.de
Wed Jun 2 10:10:15 UTC 2010


On Wed, 02 Jun 2010 16:15:22 +0800, Aiza <aiza21 at comclark.com> wrote:
> 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?



Maybe "cut" can help:

	% echo 'archivename-201006021514.34.tar.gz' | cut -d '-' -f 1
	archivename

Cutting -f 2 will give you the remaining component.

	% echo 'archivename-201006021514.34.tar.gz' | cut -d '-' -f 2
	201006021514.34.tar.gz

To cut off the suffix (.tar.gz), consider using "basename".


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