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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Cut a string for last 8 characters Post 302846963 by Little on Monday 26th of August 2013 04:50:15 AM
Old 08-26-2013
May this also help you..

Code:
Last_eight_char=$(echo ${filename#*.})
echo "$Last_eight_char"

the code will take out the all the extensions instead of last 8 characters. i think this is your requirement. i suggest this because extensions can be more than 3 characters also.

---------- Post updated at 02:20 PM ---------- Previous update was at 01:53 PM ----------

hi, you can use the below code also.. i think file extensions can be more tha 3 characters also.
Code:
TPT_PATH='/home/ctl/tpt'
CP_PATH='/home/ctl/copy'

for line in filelist.txt ;
do
  if [ -f $TPT_PATH/$line ]
  then
        line=$(echo ${line%*.*.*}).copy.vsql
        echo "###################################################################################################" >> $CP_PATH/$line
  fi
done

 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

rpld-play

rpld-*(1)					       System User's Manual: rpld-deprecated						 rpld-*(1)

NAME

       rpld-deprecated - Deprecated RoarAudio PlayList Daemon control programs

SYNOPSIS

       rpld-play

       rpld-stop

       rpld-next [--ifcurple PLE]

       rpld-prev

       rpld-addplaylist PLI

       rpld-delplaylist PLI

       rpld-store

DESCRIPTION

       The  RoarAudio  PlayList  Daemon is a daemon which manages playlists and can play files or streams from those lists using a RoarAudio Sound
       Server.

       This is a set of deprecated tools to do simple control of the server.  All those tools has be replaced by rpld-ctl(1).

       The following tools are deprecated:

       rpld-play
	      Start playback if not yet started.

	      Replaced by: rpld-ctl play

       rpld-stop
	      Stop playback.

	      Replaced by: rpld-ctl stop

       rpld-next [--ifcurple PLE]
	      Skip current song.

	      if --ifcurple and a PLE is given the song is only skiped if the currently played song matches the given PLE.

	      This tool has only been deprecated in case --ifcurple is not used.  Replaced by: rpld-ctl next

       rpld-prev
	      Go back to previous song.

	      Replaced by: rpld-ctl prev

       rpld-addplaylist PLI
	      Add playlist with name PLI.

	      Replaced by: rpld-ctl addplaylist PLI

       rpld-delplaylist PLI
	      Delete playlist PLI.

	      Replaced by: rpld-ctl delplaylist PLI

       rpld-store
	      Store current state to disk.

	      This tool should not be needed to be called by a user at all for normal use cases.

	      Replaced by: rpld-ctl store

SEE ALSO

       rpld-tools(1), rpld(7), RoarAudio(7).

HISTORY

       For history information see RoarAudio(7).

rpld-deprecated 						     May 2012								 rpld-*(1)
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