scripting/regex help

[Jerry Davis]

On Mon, 12 Jun 2006 11:30:49 -0700
"Eric \"Shubes\"" <plug at 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}

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