command to strip suffix in .sh script

[Matthew Seaman]

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On 02/06/2010 09:24:01, Matthias Apitz wrote:
> El día Wednesday, June 02, 2010 a las 04:15:22PM +0800, Aiza escribió:
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>> I have this code
>>
>> archive_name=`echo -n "${fromarchive}" | tr -c '[:alnum:]' _`
>>
>> ` is the key under Esc key  and ' key is next to enter key.
>>
>> fromarchive value is archivename-201006021514.34.tar.gz
>>
>> I want to strip the suffix -201006021514.34.tar.gz from the archivename.
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>> The archivename can be upper and lower case letters interspersed with _
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>>
>> Do I have syntax problem with the code? I get no error on it.
>>
>> Do I have the tr command coded correctly?
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>> Or should I be using something else instead of tr command?
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> $ echo 'archivename-201006021514.34.tar.gz' | sed 's/-.*$//'

archive_name=${fromarchive%-*}

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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