Shell Programming and Scripting

Is it possible to use a variable as the delimiter using basename?

I have a num variable that will be changing in the filename now.
The files could looke like this

my.email.address@mydomain.com.VL010600_474
my.email.address@mydomain.com.VL020600_474
my.email.address@mydomain.com.VL030600_474
my.email.address@mydomain.com.VL040600_474

I'm tryin to loop thru and use a variable for the delimiter.

delim=".VL0$num0600_474"
email=`basename $f $delim`
echo "email = $email " >> /home/myname/xls.logfile

When I look at the email variable, it has the delimiter tacked on to it instead of just the email address.

I really appreciate all the suggestions.

I think you can do a basename with variable - just can't think of it off the top of my head. However, see the following that may be able to help:

Code:

> var1="Doe"       
> echo "JohnDoe" | sed "s/$var1/~&/"
John~Doe
> echo "JohnDoe" | sed "s/$var1/~&/" | cut -d"~" -f1
John

Effectively cutting the text that occurs with/after your var1

Code:

for file in *@*.VL0*_*;do echo ${file%\.*} >>/home/myname/xls.logfile;done