Re: cut

From: Ed Morton <morton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 15:04:10 -0500

virus.clear.net.nz wrote:

If I have a listing of packages,
such as : -

XML-Parser-2.34.tbz2
bin86-0.16.17.tbz2
libxml2-2.6.26.tbz2 system-tools-backends-1.4.2.tbz2

I want to cut the version number from the listing, leaving only bin86, libxml2, etc.
I think that cutting a "-" followed by a {0-9} achieve this ??? but cut only allows for a single delimiter.

How to achieve this ?

It sounds like just:

cut -d- -f1

would do what you want, but I assume there's more to it than you've explained so far, so perhaps some small, concrete sample input and expected output would help.

Ed.
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