Das Werkstatt

Posted: **Wed May 16, 2012 8:34 pm**

A clean way for removing a file suffix (.jpg, .txt, ...) using only bash-internal syntax is as follows:

FILE="bla.txt"
NAME="${FILE%.*}"
echo $NAME

This will output:

bla

Posted: **Thu Jul 16, 2015 12:27 am**

Here's the opposite of ^Rooker's snippet:
How to extract the file suffix as string in Bash?

FILE="bla.txt"
NAME="${FILE##*.}"
echo $NAME

This will output:

txt

Remove file suffix in Bash