Re: scripting/regex help

On Mon, 12 Jun 2006 17:04:06 -0700
Jerry Davis <jdawgaz@cox.net> wrote:

> On Mon, 12 Jun 2006 11:30:49 -0700
> "Eric \"Shubes\"" <plug@shubes.net> wrote:
>
> > Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> > > On Mon, 12 Jun 2006, Eric "Shubes" wrote:
> > >
> > >> I have a variable x=qmail-toaster-1.2.9-1.3.1.src.rpm
> > >>
> > >> I want a variable y=qmail-toaster
> > >>
> > >> I'm thinking that to get from x to y, I need to strip -*-
> > >> *.src.rpm off the end. How do I do that? (or is there a better
> > >> way?)
> > >
> > > sed -e 's,-[^-]*-[^-]*.src.rpm$,,'
> > >
> > > Jeremy C. Reed
> > >
> > Excellent! I promise I'll study it until I understand how it works.
> > Thanks a bunch!
>
> in bash, if that is what you are using:
>
> x=qmail-toaster-1.2.9-1.3.1.src.rpm
> y=${x%.src.*rpm}

sorry that should be:
y=${x%-[^-]*-[^-]*.src.*rpm}

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