Shell Scripting: File Names Without Extension

With the help of the curly braces notation, this is pretty easy to achieve:

# File Name Without Extension
${VAR%.*}

# File Extension
${VAR##*.}

And here’s a little example:

[valmont@DESKTOP ~]$ FNAME=itcode.script
[valmont@DESKTOP ~]$ echo ${FNAME##*.}
script
[valmont@DESKTOP ~]$ echo ${FNAME%.*}
itcode
[valmont@DESKTOP ~]$

Don’t tell anybody, I used to do it like this:

[valmont@DESKTOP-5KONCNE ~]$ FNAME=itcode.script
[valmont@DESKTOP-5KONCNE ~]$ echo $FNAME | sed -e ‘s#\.[^\.]*##’
itcode
[valmont@DESKTOP-5KONCNE ~]$

Ouch! This might look impressive. Not much else! Hahaha!

---

If you have any questions, feel free to ask in the comments section. Also, if this helped you in any way, please like and share. Until next time!