From: Dominic Mitchell <dom@happygiraffe.net>
To: zzapper <david@tvis.co.uk>
Cc: zsh-users@sunsite.dk
Subject: Re: variable expansion which will remove a file extension
Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2006 00:03:30 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <441B4E52.2080905@happygiraffe.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Xns9789F2DC127DFzzappergmailcom@80.91.229.5>
zzapper wrote:
> Hi,
> How do I write a variable expansion which will remove a file extension eg
> fred.tex -> fred
>
> This is what I hacked:-
>
> zip=${file//\.[[:alnum:]]*/}
How about:
zip=${file%.*}
-Dom
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-03-18 0:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-03-17 23:52 zzapper
2006-03-18 0:03 ` Dominic Mitchell [this message]
2006-03-18 0:08 ` paul Lew
2006-03-18 0:23 ` Bart Schaefer
2006-03-18 0:43 ` zzapper
2006-03-18 0:42 ` Christian Schneider
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