command to strip suffix in .sh script

[Vinny]

On 06/02/2010 04:30, Matthew Seaman wrote:
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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
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>> $ echo 'archivename-201006021514.34.tar.gz' | sed 's/-.*$//'
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> archive_name=${fromarchive%-*}
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Thanks Matthew, that's really neat.  It took me a long time
to find the correct google incantation to find the documentation
for that.  ( bourne shell pattern-matching notation )

Sure is nice to learn something new everyday.