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by **Lee Hon Chor (cf** » Wed, 13 Jun 2001 18:51:29

Hi,

Could somebody tell me how to, with a command, display a filename
without its extension? For example, for 'abc.txt', the command
displays 'abc'. Thanx.

David

by **Jens.Toerr..** » Wed, 13 Jun 2001 19:20:35

Quote:> Could somebody tell me how to, with a command, display a filename
> without its extension? For example, for 'abc.txt', the command
> displays 'abc'. Thanx.

There is no such command because UNIX doesn't has extensions. The '.'
is just another character you can have in your filename and it isn't
special in any respect. This said, of course you can get rid of every-
thing including and following a point. Since you don't specify in
what context you want to do this I can just guess and give you an
example in bash: If your filename, say 'abc.def', is stored in the
variable a you get the filename without the 'extension' by using

${a%.*}

by **Scott Hawle** » Wed, 13 Jun 2001 21:04:44

You could try cut as well,

echo abc.c | cut -d. -f1 will print 'abc'

Quote:> Hi,

> Could somebody tell me how to, with a command, display a filename
> without its extension? For example, for 'abc.txt', the command
> displays 'abc'. Thanx.

> David

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by **F. Michael Or** » Wed, 13 Jun 2001 21:58:01

> > Could somebody tell me how to, with a command, display a filename
> > without its extension? For example, for 'abc.txt', the command
> > displays 'abc'. Thanx.

> There is no such command because UNIX doesn't has extensions. The '.'
> is just another character you can have in your filename and it isn't
> special in any respect. This said, of course you can get rid of every-
> thing including and following a point. Since you don't specify in
> what context you want to do this I can just guess and give you an
> example in bash: If your filename, say 'abc.def', is stored in the
> variable a you get the filename without the 'extension' by using

UNIX doesn't use extensions to determine executables, but it most certainly
does use extensions. The command to see a filename without the extension is
'dirname'. To see _just_ the filename, without extension or path, is
'basename'.

by **Arto Viitane** » Wed, 13 Jun 2001 22:30:26

Lee> Hi, Could somebody tell me how to, with a command, display a filename
Lee> without its extension? For example, for 'abc.txt', the command displays
Lee> 'abc'. Thanx.

Command basename(1) is closest. Actually, basename is used in removing
directory part of the filename, like

$ basename /d1/d2.ext2/d3/d4.ext4/file.ext5

file.ext5

If you give extension, you get

$ basename /d1/d2.ext2/d3/d4.ext4/file.ext5 .ext5

file

But, you have to know the extension already.

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by **Steve Alla** » Thu, 14 Jun 2001 01:06:36

>> > Could somebody tell me how to, with a command, display a filename
>> > without its extension? For example, for 'abc.txt', the command
>> > displays 'abc'. Thanx.

>> There is no such command because UNIX doesn't has extensions. The '.'
>> is just another character you can have in your filename and it isn't
>> special in any respect. This said, of course you can get rid of every-
>> thing including and following a point. Since you don't specify in
>> what context you want to do this I can just guess and give you an
>> example in bash: If your filename, say 'abc.def', is stored in the
>> variable a you get the filename without the 'extension' by using

>UNIX doesn't use extensions to determine executables, but it most certainly
>does use extensions. The command to see a filename without the extension is
>'dirname'. To see _just_ the filename, without extension or path, is
>'basename'.

Are you sure? On my solaris box:

% dirname /tmp/foo.txt
/tmp
% basename /tmp/foo.txt
foo.txt

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by **Steve Alla** » Thu, 14 Jun 2001 01:10:59

D'oh! I should have read on and I would have learned about the
'suffix' arg to basename before posting.

% basename /tmp/foo.txt .txt
foo

That's a new one for me.

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by **Theo Lutgeri** » Thu, 14 Jun 2001 06:13:04

Use 'basename'.

It has a lot of options, or write some command yourself. That must not
be too difficult, I suppose.

Quote:>Hi,

>Could somebody tell me how to, with a command, display a filename
>without its extension? For example, for 'abc.txt', the command
>displays 'abc'. Thanx.

>David

by **Dowe Kell** » Thu, 14 Jun 2001 13:54:49

Quote:>Hi,

>Could somebody tell me how to, with a command, display a filename
>without its extension? For example, for 'abc.txt', the command
>displays 'abc'. Thanx.

>David

If you know what the extension is, you can simpy type:

basename foo.bar .bar

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by **Juergen Pfan** » Thu, 14 Jun 2001 15:00:45

> You could try cut as well,

> echo abc.c | cut -d. -f1 will print 'abc'

ACK in most cases - but gives "wrong" result
for filenames with more than one dot, as one
might expect the filename minus the last dot and
"extension", not the part of the name up
to the _first_ dot.
With a known "extension", I'd say, as some other
posters already, the 'basename' tool is the easiest
way - and "multiple-dot-safe" :
basename abc.c .c
in the case of your example.

Juergen

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Any command to display a filename without extension?

Any command to display a filename without extension?

Any command to display a filename without extension?

Any command to display a filename without extension?

Any command to display a filename without extension?

Any command to display a filename without extension?

Any command to display a filename without extension?

Any command to display a filename without extension?

Any command to display a filename without extension?

Any command to display a filename without extension?

Any command to display a filename without extension?