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Old 02-25-2007
ahmedwaseem2000 ahmedwaseem2000 is offline
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You could use either the awk or the cut solutions they will work in all the scenarios. Here is the sed solution to generalize on both the occasions.

Code:
 echo "filename.tar" | sed "s/\([^.*]\)\.\(.*\)*$/\1/g"
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