I'd use sed and the regex "-[0-9]" to delimit the field
foo=`echo '123--bad-2xyz-3--' | sed -r -e "s/-[0-9].*//"` echo $foo 123--bad Helpful? Adam Carter wrote:
Hi All, I need to cut a string, which happens to be a filename, using the first dash that's followed by a numeral, so cut -f 1 -d"-" fails if the filename has an extra dash. How do i do this?
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