Thanks for your feedback! I will do as you proposed and no longer rely on
shell expansions. Thanks!
2013/6/17 Chris Wright <dhase...@gmail.com>
> 2013/6/17 Luciano ES <lucm...@gmail.com>
>
>> I agree that 'basename' doesn't quite cut it, and your request is fair.
>>
>> On the other hand, I think you have grown too accustomed to the quirk of
>> one specific shell, although other shells have something similar.
>>
>> I would recommend you achieve what you want with sed, because it is
>> really ubiquitous and will work in any shell. You may only realize how
>> valuable that is after you have been through three or four shells, like I
>> have (bash, ksh, tcsh and fish).
>>
>> So:
>>
>> set nameis (echo $dataset | sed 's/\([^.]\+\).*$/\1/')
>>
>
> I usually:
> set nameis (echo $dataset | sed 's/\.[^.]*$//')
>
> That renames "foo.bar.txt" to "foo.bar", whereas your snippet renames it
> to "foo".
>
>
>> Personally, I prefer this cleaner way:
>>
>> set nameis (echo $dataset | sed -r 's/([^.]+).*$/\1/')
>>
>> That solution also honors the old wisdom of The Unix Way, which is one
>> dedicated tool for each specific task.
>>
>> An additional benefit of that approach is that you only have to learn the
>> traditional Regular Expressions, not some dialect that no other language or
>> tool uses.
>>
>> --
>> Luciano ES
>> >>
>> **************************
>> On Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:31:18 +0200, aurelien coillet wrote:
>>
>> > Well thanks, I knew this solution, but it only works if you know the
>> > extension of the file. What I'm looking for is something that remove
>> > any extension suffix, whatever it is. So, your last line should give
>> > "myfile" alone.
>> >
>> >
>> > 2013/6/17 Stestagg <stest...@gmail.com>
>> >
>> > > One simple method would be to use basename:
>> > >
>> > > nameis=(basename $dataset .foo)
>> > >
>> > > this will perform the following,
>> > >
>> > > if $dataset = myfile then $nameis = myfile
>> > > if $dataset = myfile.foo then $nameis = myfile
>> > > if $dataset = /path/to/myfile.foo then $nameis = myfile
>> > > if $dataset = /path/to/myfile.bar then $nameis = myfile.bar
>> > >
>> > > so provided you don't need absolute paths, this is simple.
>> > >
>> > > Steve
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 9:22 AM, aurelien coillet
>> > > <acoil...@gmail.com>wrote:
>> > >
>> > >> Hi,
>> > >>
>> > >> How can I perform suffix removal as this (bash) command:
>> > >>
>> > >> nameis=${dataset%.*}
>> > >>
>> > >>
>> > >> if dataset is a filename with extension (say foo.txt), nameis will
>> > >> only contain "foo".
>> > >> Is there a way to do that with fish?
>> > >>
>> > >> Thanks,
>> > >>
>> > >> --
>> > >> Aurélien Coillet
>> > >>
>> > >>
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