Question

I am trying to make a script in bash that requires the removal of the the file extension from a file name, like the following

original:   something.zip
removed version: something

And I was thinking I could use cut for this, but I am worried that a situation could arise where there might be a file name that has more than one period, etc, something similar to the following

something.v2.zip

having said that, I was wondering if anyone had any recommendations as to what I could do to just remove the last period and the text after it from a line of text/filename? any help would be appreciated, thanks!

Answer 1

 f=file.zip
 echo "${f%.zip}"

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The ‘%’ is a parameter modifier, it means, delete from the right side of the value of the variable whatever is after the ‘%’ char, in this case, the string .zip. You can make this more general to remove any trailing extension, by using a wild card like

 echo "${f%.*}"

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