Re: [gentoo-user] sed/awk question

[Pandu Poluan]

On Nov 22, 2011 10:01 AM, "Pandu Poluan" <pandu@××××××.info> wrote:
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> On Nov 22, 2011 9:57 AM, "Adam Carter" <adamcarter3@×××××.com> 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
> > 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?
> >
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> sed -r -e 's/(.*)-[0-9].*/\1/'

You know, that looks familiar... are you trying to get a package name from
the list of eix-installed? :-)

Rgds,