Re: [gentoo-user] sed/awk question

[Joseph Davis]

I'd use sed and the regex "-[0-9]" to delimit the field


foo=`echo '123--bad-2xyz-3--' | sed -r -e "s/-[0-9].*//"`
echo $foo
123--bad


Helpful?

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?
>
>

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