Question

I need to parse filenames so that I can import them into mySQL. The files are named like this:

Test 000.txt
My Test 002.txt
The-Test.txt
000Test 222.txt
Test 1.txt
Test 04.txt

I would like to parse them so I can import the text part and numeric part separately.

Name          Version
----          -------
Test          0
My Test       2
The-Test  
000Test       222
Test          1
Test          4

The version part will always be the numbers before the file extension.

Answer 1

while read f; do
  prefix=`echo $f | sed -e 's/ *[0-9]*.txt//'`
  number=`echo $f | sed -e "s/$prefix *//" -e s/.txt//`
  echo $prefix/$number
done << eof
  Test 000.txt
  My Test 002.txt
  The-Test.txt
  000Test 222.txt
  Test 1.txt
  Test 04.txt
eof