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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting [Solved] Modifying/Removing Timestamps from a filename Post 302889685 by Don Cragun on Sunday 23rd of February 2014 03:07:57 AM
Old 02-23-2014
Perhaps the following examples will help:
Code:
#!/bin/ksh
for infile in test_DD-MM-YY.txt coolbeans_DD-MM-YY.pdf
do      printf "infile:\t\t%s\n" "$infile"
        # Following will work with recent bash and ksh:
        outfile=${infile/_????????/}
        printf "outfile:\t%s\n" "$outfile"
        # Following will work with any POSIX conforming shell:
        Poutfile=${infile%_*}.${infile#*.}
        printf "POSIX outfile:\t%s\n\n" "$Poutfile"
done

which produces the output:
Code:
infile:		test_DD-MM-YY.txt
outfile:	test.txt
POSIX outfile:	test.txt

infile:		coolbeans_DD-MM-YY.pdf
outfile:	coolbeans.pdf
POSIX outfile:	coolbeans.pdf

 

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