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
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