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* Re: [gentoo-user] sed/awk question
  @ 2011-11-22  4:49 99% ` Benjamin Lee
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From: Benjamin Lee @ 2011-11-22  4:49 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user; +Cc: Adam Carter

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On 11/21/2011 06:52 PM, Adam Carter wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I need to cut a string, which happens to be a filename, using the
> first dash that's followed by a numeral, so cut -f 1 -d"-" fails if
> the filename has an extra dash. How do i do this?

Here's a Bourne parameter expansion:

blee@eclipse ~ $ foo="net-snmp-5.3.2.2-5.cp843034001.i386.rpm"
blee@eclipse ~ $ echo ${foo%%-[0-9]*}
net-snmp


-- 
Benjamin Lee
http://www.b1c1l1.com/


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