Arun Antony
Reputation: 593
Extract part of file name using KornShell
I have a file name, for example: xxdatafile_20110120123030_12342.dat. I want to extract "XXdatafile_" from the file name.
How do I do that using Ksh on Unix?
Upvotes: 0
Views: 1803
Answers (1)
kurumi
Reputation: 25609
$ file=xxdatafile_20110120123030_12342.dat
$ echo ${file%%_*}
xxdatafile
Upvotes: 6
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