command to strip suffix in .sh script

[Anh Ky Huynh]

On Wed, 02 Jun 2010 20:25:36 -0400
Vinny <vinny-mail-01+freebsd20100602 at palaceofretention.ca> wrote:

> On 06/02/2010 04:30, Matthew Seaman wrote:
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> > On 02/06/2010 09:24:01, Matthias Apitz wrote:
> >> El día Wednesday, June 02, 2010 a las 04:15:22PM +0800, Aiza
> >> escribió:
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> >>> I have this code
> [snip]
> >> $ echo 'archivename-201006021514.34.tar.gz' | sed 's/-.*$//'
> >
> > archive_name=${fromarchive%-*}
> >
> 
> Thanks Matthew, that's really neat.  It took me a long time
> to find the correct google incantation to find the documentation
> for that.  ( bourne shell pattern-matching notation )

In fact I know about that from Bash's documents:) IMHO, there are more Bash's documents than Bourne's ones.

Cheers,

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Anh Ky Huynh