Pandu Poluan <pa...@poluan.info> wrote:
> 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].*//'
Nust a note: sed has no option -r and 's/(.*)-[0-9].*/\1/' is a "garbled"
command. A corrected version would be 's/\(.*\)-[0-9].*/\1/'
So the main question is: why do you use a non-existing option?
Jörg
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