On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 10:26, Adam Carter <adamcart...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> sed -r -e 's/(.*)-[0-9].*/\1/' >> >> You know, that looks familiar... are you trying to get a package name from >> the list of eix-installed? :-) > > No - its non-gentoo. In this case it hasn't worked > > $ echo net-snmp-5.3.2.2-5.cp843034001.i386.rpm | sed -r -e > 's/(.*)-[0-9].*/\1/' > net-snmp-5.3.2.2 >
Ah, yes. sed's greedy regex again messes up the plan >.< Here's an alternative: sed -r -e 's/-[0-9].*//' Basically, the regex above tries to (greedily) match "dash followed by a digit followed by zero or more (any) characters"... then deletes the match. Thus leaving the front part of the string untouched. (And yes, this time I've tested the sed incantation) Rgds, -- FdS Pandu E Poluan ~ IT Optimizer ~ • LOPSA Member #15248 • Blog : http://pepoluan.tumblr.com • Linked-In : http://id.linkedin.com/in/pepoluan
