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Oh, and you can get the other end next by |
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foo2=`echo '123--bad-2xyz-3--' | sed -r -e "s/$foo//"` |
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echo $foo2 |
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-2xyz-3-- |
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Joseph Davis wrote: |
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> I'd use sed and the regex "-[0-9]" to delimit the field |
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> foo=`echo '123--bad-2xyz-3--' | sed -r -e "s/-[0-9].*//"` |
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> echo $foo |
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> 123--bad |
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> Helpful? |
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> Adam Carter wrote: |
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>> Hi All, |
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>> I need to cut a string, which happens to be a filename, using the |
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>> first dash that's followed by a numeral, so cut -f 1 -d"-" fails if |
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>> the filename has an extra dash. How do i do this? |
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