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FILE="bla.txt"
NAME="${FILE%.*}"
echo $NAMEbla
Remove file suffix in Bash
Remove file suffix in Bash
A clean way for removing a file suffix (.jpg, .txt, ...) using only bash-internal syntax is as follows:
This will output:
Jumping out of an airplane is not a basic instinct. Neither is breathing underwater. But put the two together and you're traveling through space!
Extract file suffix in Bash
Here's the opposite of ^Rooker's snippet:
How to extract the file suffix as string in Bash?
This will output:
How to extract the file suffix as string in Bash?
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FILE="bla.txt"
NAME="${FILE##*.}"
echo $NAME
txt