Re: extract chars after a last dot
From: Chris F.A. Johnson (c.f.a.johnson_at_rogers.com)
Date: 08/04/03
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Date: 4 Aug 2003 21:54:21 GMT
On Mon, 04 Aug 2003 at 11:22 GMT, mike wrote:
> hi
>
> i have files with names test.1 and test.file.10
> how do i extract the characters after the last dot? so in the example
> it would be
>
> 1) test.1 extract to "1"
> 2) test.file.10 extract to "10"
var=test.file.10
In a POSIX shell, such as sh (on *BSD), bash, ksh, etc.:
echo ${var##*.}
In any shell:
expr "x$var" : '.*\.\(.*\)'
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