command to strip suffix in .sh script

[Matthias Apitz]

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/-.*$//'

HIH

	matthias

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