Shell Programming and Scripting

hi

how to remove extensions of a file.. suppose i have a filename "gtk2-2.4.13-24.el4.x86_64.rpm" and i want the file name as "gtk2-2.4.13-24.el4" means want to remove last two "." extensions of a file

can anyone help me in this

thanks in advance
srik

try this

Code:

echo "gtk2-2.4.13-24.el4.x86_64.rpm" | sed 's/.x86_64.rpm//'

hi ryandegreat25

i didn't find the code in ur reply..can u post the code plzz

Regards
srik

sorry, is it specific? you can specify it directly since there's probably a lot of dots (.)

Try:

Code:

basename gtk2-2.4.13-24.el4.x86_64.rpm .x86_64.rpm

hi ryandegreat25

thanks for the reply .. but i have a list of file names in a variable

filename="gtk2-2.4.13-24.el4.x86_64.rpm gtk2-2.4.13-24.el4.srik.hhh.rpm ...etc"
and want the output as gtk2-2.4.13-24.el4 and gtk2-2.4.13-24.el4.srik

in this case i just want to remove the last two extensions of filenames

is it possible to remove the extensions based on last two "." ' s


Regards
srik

Try:

Code:

for i in $filename
do
   basename $i $(echo $i | awk -F"." '{print "."$(NF-1)"."$NF}')
done