12-27-2006
Stripping out the extension of a file name
I have written a shell script and in my script i have a variable
filename=myfile.txt
now, i want another variable to be defined for which i have to strip out the extension fo the file name,
i.e. newvariable= myfile
how do i strip out the ".txt" part from my first variable.
Any kind of help is appreciated.
thanks
ram
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