Hi
suppose I run my script using an argument (abc.xyz)
i want to strip the extension off nad just use the file name for further manipulations.
any ideas ?
~thanks
echo "abc.xyz" | awk -F. '{print $1}'
abc
echo ${1%.*}
where $1 is the first argument passed to the script. If you are storing the argument in a variable, you can use
echo ${FILENAME%.*}
where FILENAME is the variable which stores the argument passed.
how about this ??
fullname="$1"
echo $fullname
name= "$fullname" | cut -f1 -d"."
echo $name
echo fullname works
bt cut command isnt working
what do i do ?
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and what about this ??
malo901_cp-link_0807_020.csv
what If I want only cp-link out of it ??
Replace name= "$fullname" | cut -f1 -d"." with
name=$(echo "$fullname" | cut -f1 -d".")
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echo "malo901_cp-link_0807_020.csv" | cut -d"_" -f 2
Thanks all 
If you always know the extension and if it static..says extension is always xyz then you can use 'basename'
>basename abc.xyz .xyz
abc