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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers substring Post 7142 by Perderabo on Wednesday 19th of September 2001 01:50:46 PM
Old 09-19-2001
If you're using ksh it's just:
find / -name ${name%.*}\* -print

If you're using a lower voltage shell, there is always basename, but basename can remove a specific suffix:
find / -name `basename $name .txt` -print

To remove any suffix without using ksh, you will need to use sed, but the syntax is nasty:
find / -name `echo $name | sed 's/\([^.]*\).*/\1/'` -print

And yes, these days you don't need the -print anymore, but I'm a traditional kind of guy.
 

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script(1)							   User Commands							 script(1)

NAME
script - make record of a terminal session SYNOPSIS
script [-a] [filename] DESCRIPTION
The script utility makes a record of everything printed on your screen. The record is written to filename. If no file name is given, the record is saved in the file typescript. See WARNINGS. The script command forks and creates a sub-shell, according to the value of $SHELL, and records the text from this session. The script ends when the forked shell exits or when Control-d is typed. OPTIONS
The following option is supported: -a Appends the session record to filename, rather than overwriting it. NOTES
script places everything that appears on the screen in filename, including prompts. ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWcsu | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |CSI |Enabled | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
attributes(5) WARNINGS
script can pose a security risk when used in directories that are writable by other users (for example, /tmp), especially when run by a privileged user, that is, root. Be sure that typescript is not a link before running script. SunOS 5.10 30 Jan 2004 script(1)
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