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# 1  
Old 04-03-2006
Strip extention from filename
Hey,

How to strip the extention from filename?

MY_XML.xml -> MY_XML
MY_TEST_FILE.txt -> MY_TEST_FILE
HELLO_WORLD.xls -> HELLO_WORLD

Thanks in advance!
# 2  
Old 04-03-2006
Say filename holds each of those names. Then this would work

Code:
${filename%\.*}

gives the filename sans the extension. If the file contains more than one . , i.e. like filename.1.2.3, then the above would give filename.1.2

If you need to remove all sub.extensions, then it would be
Code:
${filename%%\.*}

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Old 04-03-2006
echo $filename|cut -d"." -f1
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