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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Truncate multiple file extensions Post 302133551 by prvnrk on Friday 24th of August 2007 01:44:28 AM
Old 08-24-2007
Namish,

I know what " echo "number" " does and there's nothing hard to understand there. But his code expects again a "num".

I'm not sure if you read my post fully and again i repeat "how could i extract the "filename with first extension" out of "filename with infinite extensions"?" e.g., how to extract "file1.txt" from file1.txt.txt.txt..........? (no hardcoding of filenames with wild char pls..)


Regards,

Prvn
 

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LEARN ABOUT CENTOS

glob.h

glob.h(3HEAD)                                                         Headers                                                        glob.h(3HEAD)

NAME

       glob.h, glob - pathname pattern-matching types

SYNOPSIS

       #include <glob.h>

DESCRIPTION

       The <glob.h> header defines the structures and symbolic constants used by the glob(3C).

       The structure type glob_t contains the following members:

       size_t gl_pathc       /* count of paths matched by pattern */
       char   **gl_pathv     /* pointer to a list of matched pathnames */
       size_t gl_offs        /* lots to reserve at the beginning of gl_pathv */

       The following constants are provided as values for the flags argument:

       GLOB_APPEND     Append generated pathnames to those previously obtained.

       GLOB_DOOFFS     Specify how many null pointers to add to the beginning of gl_pathv.

       GLOB_ERR        Cause glob() to return on error.

       GLOB_MARK       Each pathname that is a directory that matches pattern has a slash appended.

       GLOB_NOCHECK    If pattern does not match any  pathname, then return a list consisting of only pattern.

       GLOB_NOESCAPE   Disable backslash escaping.

       GLOB_NOSORT     Do not sort the pathnames returned.

       The following constants are defined as error return values:

       GLOB_ABORTED    The scan was stopped because GLOB_ERR was set or (*errfunc)() returned non-zero.

       GLOB_NOMATCH    The pattern does not match any existing pathname, and GLOB_NOCHECK was not set in flags.

       GLOB_NOSPACE    An attempt to allocate memory failed.

       GLOB_NOSYS      Reserved.

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE         |      ATTRIBUTE VALUE        |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface Stability          |Standard                     |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       glob(3C), attributes(5), standards(5)

SunOS 5.10                                                          10 Sep 2004                                                      glob.h(3HEAD)
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