substr string from end of the string 2

[himridul]

Hi,

I have number of files in a dir name ends with ?.err where ? is single literal. For example, the file names are:
MMLGO_3010_20100201100500.3010.5.err
MMLGO_3010_20100201100500.3010.7.err

I want to get the name MMLGO_3010_20100201100500.3010

Facts:
The length of MMLGO_3010_20100201100500.3010 can vary.

I'm very new in scripting. Can we use sed or awk to get the result? Thanks in advance!

 

[feherke]

Hi

[navy]str[/navy][teal]=[/teal][green][i]'MMLGO_3010_20100201100500.3010.5.err'[/i][/green]
echo [green][i]"${str%.*.err}"[/i][/green]

Tested with [tt]bash[/tt] and [tt]mksh[/tt].

Can we use sed or awk to get the result?

Yes...

Feherke.

http://free.rootshell.be/~feherke/

 

[Ogzilal]

Hi,

Try this code

for FILENAME in $(ls *.err )
do
echo ${FILENAME%.*.err}
done

 

[p5wizard]

And what about basename?

$ a="MMLGO_3010_20100201100500.3010.5.err"
$ b=$(basename $a .err)
$ echo $b
MMLGO_3010_20100201100500.3010.5

HTH,

p5wizard

 

[feherke]

Hi

Yes, but the OP wants to remove the last two dot ( . ) separated pieces, from which one seems to be fixed but the other is variable. So [tt]basename[/tt] alone can not solve it.

Feherke.

http://free.rootshell.be/~feherke/

 

[p5wizard]

My bad - sorry...

 

[stefanwagner]

Don't use ls in shellscripts. Instead of

for FILENAME in $(ls *.err )

use

for FILENAME in *.err

otherwise you get problems with blanks in filenames, and you spend much too much time on typing.

asux:~/proj/mini/forum/quelle > touch a "b b" ccc
asux:~/proj/mini/forum/quelle > ls
a  b b  ccc
asux:~/proj/mini/forum/quelle > l
insgesamt 2
drwxr-xr-x  2 stefan stefan  120 2010-02-15 22:50 .
drwxr-xr-x 22 stefan stefan 1912 2010-02-15 22:11 ..
-rw-r--r--  1 stefan stefan    0 2010-02-15 22:50 a
-rw-r--r--  1 stefan stefan    0 2010-02-15 22:50 b b
-rw-r--r--  1 stefan stefan    0 2010-02-15 22:50 ccc
asux:~/proj/mini/forum/quelle > for f in $(ls *) ; do echo $f ; done 
a
b
b
ccc
asux:~/proj/mini/forum/quelle > for f in * ; do echo $f ; done 
a
b b
ccc
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