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# 1  
Old 08-18-2010
Error Find and delete rest of the line
i need to find ' - ' in a line , if i found i need to rest of the line including '-'

example
Code:
libmm-2.0
libytytsunos-5.6

output
Code:
libmm
libytytsunos

# 2  
Old 08-18-2010
something like this,
Code:
sed 's/-.*//g' infile

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# 3  
Old 08-18-2010
Or this:
Code:
awk -F- '{print $1}' infile

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# 4  
Old 08-18-2010
if values in variables
Code:
for VAR in "libmm-2.0" "libytytsunos-5.6"
do  echo ${VAR%%-*}
done

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# 5  
Old 08-18-2010
Code:
cut -d \- -f1 < urfile

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# 6  
Old 08-19-2010
Thanks for all u ...
It worked
# 7  
Old 08-21-2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by frans
if values in variables
Code:
for VAR in "libmm-2.0" "libytytsunos-5.6"
do  echo ${VAR%%-*}
done

Nice.
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