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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting BASH: remove digits from end of string Post 302508563 by panyam on Monday 28th of March 2011 12:40:46 PM
Old 03-28-2011
Hello,

Sorry I was at my dinner so was the delay.

here , using sed i am first searching for the last occurance of "alphabet" using \(.*[a-z]\) and the same can be referenced by \1, rest every thing can be referenced by \2.

A good place to start with , if you are interested to learn sed:

www.grymoire.com/Unix/Sed.html
 

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HIERARCHY

	 Glib::Object
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       o   $margin (double)

       o   $unit (Gtk2::Unit)

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   $setup->set_left_margin ($margin, $unit)
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   $setup->load_file ($file_name)
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       Since: gtk+ 2.14

   $setup->load_key_file ($key_file, $group_name)
       o   $key_file (Glib::KeyFile)

       o   $group_name (string or undef)

       May croak with a Glib::Error in $@ on failure.

       Since: gtk+ 2.14

   pageorientation = $setup->get_orientation
   $setup->set_orientation ($orientation)
       o   $orientation (Gtk2::PageOrientation)

   double = $setup->get_page_height ($unit)
       o   $unit (Gtk2::Unit)

   double = $setup->get_page_width ($unit)
       o   $unit (Gtk2::Unit)

   double = $setup->get_paper_height ($unit)
       o   $unit (Gtk2::Unit)

   $setup->set_paper_size_and_default_margins ($size)
       o   $size (Gtk2::PaperSize)

   papersize = $setup->get_paper_size
   $setup->set_paper_size ($size)
       o   $size (Gtk2::PaperSize)

   double = $setup->get_paper_width ($unit)
       o   $unit (Gtk2::Unit)

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   $setup->set_right_margin ($margin, $unit)
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       Since: gtk+ 2.12

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       o   $margin (double)

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ENUMS AND FLAGS

   enum Gtk2::PageOrientation
       o   'portrait' / 'GTK_PAGE_ORIENTATION_PORTRAIT'

       o   'landscape' / 'GTK_PAGE_ORIENTATION_LANDSCAPE'

       o   'reverse-portrait' / 'GTK_PAGE_ORIENTATION_REVERSE_PORTRAIT'

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