.sh check for sufix g or m on size field

[Chip Camden]

Quoth Aiza on Monday, 12 July 2010:
> Sorry miss send, was not done yet.
> 
> Have a .sh script that accepts an -s sparse file size.
> Only 2 suffix's are valid m and g.
> 
> Been trying to get this line of code to strip out just the single 
> letter. But it strips the letter and every thing to the right of it.
> 
> Timagesize=`echo-n "${imagesize}" | sed 's/g.*$//'`
> 
> I plan to strip just the m or g if its there and the result should be 
> numeric. If not numeric know invalid suffix.
> 
> Need help with the sed syntax. Or if there is better way I want to learn 
> it.
> 
> Thanks
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It sounds like what you want is simply:

sed 's/[gm]//'

Or am I missing something?

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