> Bruce wrote:
> See if awk 'BEGIN {FS="\\.so"}... works for you.
Hi Bruce,
It DOES !!!
Thank you very much!
As an aside, (to explain) why _I_ prefer 'awk' to 'sed' _in this case:
for f in `cat tempx.txt`; do echo $f | sed -r 's/(.*)\.so.*/\1/'; done
vs.
cat tempx.txt | awk 'BEGIN {FS="\\.so"} ; {print $1}'
A grateful,
-- Alex
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