Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi

I have a variable whose value is like this
i=/test/test1/test2/myfile.cd.070505123457
i would like to have the value of myfile.cd stored into another variable

my attempt is
test=${i##*/} ;echo $test ##and i get
myfile.cd.070505123457

since what i wnat is myfile.cd i try this
test={{${i##*/}}##.} ;echo $test
and i get an error

Any idea how do i get what i want ?

regards
xiamin

Code:

i=/test/test1/test2/myfile.cd.070505123457
test=${i##*/}
test=${test%.*}

Hi Anbu

Thanks for your reply
I was wundering if we could do that in one line

regards
xiamin

Try...

Code:

test=$(expr $i : '.*/\(.*\)\..*')

Hi Ygor

Your solution works like charm..

But now i am pulling my hair out trying to understand what magic your code tries to do...

Can you please explain or else i might go bald :-)

regards
Hrishy

Code:

i=/test/test1/test2/myfile.cd.070505123457 ; test=${i##*/} ; test=${test%.*}

Sorry, I couldn't resist...

Hi Perderabo

Your welcome :-)

Sometimes we are tempted and take the bait ;-).I guess you are seduced by unix

regards
Hrishy