Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 12:51:53 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Peter Leftwich <Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: find case-insensitive challenge Message-ID: <20020923095153.GI1947@hades.hell.gr> In-Reply-To: <20020922214801.T68747-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> References: <200209191353.g8JDrnlA057534@lurza.secnetix.de> <20020922214801.T68747-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net>
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On 2002-09-22 21:53, Peter Leftwich <Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com> wrote: > You know, it's sad but in all my nine (9) years of grepping, I never once > used the "$" -- the "^" for "line beginning with" yes, but never the > immensely useful "$" in order to obtain the .xxx extensions :) > > That leads me to wonder about using "rev" to reverse the order of > characters on the line and "cut" using a field delimiter of "." :) :) You probably could, and then use rev to fix the lines back to their normal form too. rev | cut -d. -f2- | rev You can do that with sed(1) too, though: sed -e 's/\.[^.]*$//' Both of these should strip the `.xxx' extension of all input lines. Then, there's Perl, awk, and a few other tools. Practically unlimited ways of doing the same thing :) Giorgos. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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