Re: [gentoo-user] sed/awk question

[Adam Carter]

> I'd use sed and the regex "-[0-9]" to delimit the field
>
>
> foo=`echo '123--bad-2xyz-3--' | sed -r -e "s/-[0-9].*//"`
> echo $foo
> 123--bad
>
>
> Helpful?

Perfect - thanks!