11-26-2010
extract string from string
Hi there,
I'll need some help with a string extraction.
My main string is a filename let's say:
sdgfj ghjsdgfjhds11.xml
I'd like to extract 5 characters before file extension, in above case this would be
hds11
Can someone please help? I'd like to have this done in bash
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NAME
pdfseparate - Portable Document Format (PDF) page extractor
SYNOPSIS
pdfseparate [options] PDF-file PDF-page-pattern
DESCRIPTION
pdfseparate extract single pages from a Portable Document Format (PDF).
pdfseparate reads the PDF file PDF-file, extracts one or more pages, and writes one PDF file for each page to PDF-page-pattern, PDF-page-
pattern should contain %d. %d is replaced by the page number.
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OPTIONS
-f number
Specifies the first page to extract. If -f is omitted, extraction starts with page 1.
-l number
Specifies the last page to extract. If -l is omitted, extraction ends with the last page.
-v Print copyright and version information.
-h Print usage information. (-help and --help are equivalent.)
EXAMPLE
pdfseparate sample.pdf sample-%d.pdf
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pdfunite(1),
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