Is there a regexp that will pick out the name of an RPM package, given its file name? The shell command egrep -o "^[^.]*-" /var/log/rpmpkgs does a pretty good job, but includes part of the version with packages that use numbers without periods (see below). Thanks. --- Vladimir -- Vladimir G. Ivanovic Palo Alto, CA 94306 +1 650 678 8014 ---- atrpms-61- atrpms-package-config-102- bash-completion-20050721- compat-gcc-32- compat-libf2c-32- compat-libgcc-296- compat-libstdc++-296- compat-libstdc++-33- comps-4- cryptix-asn1-20011119- cryptix-asn1-javadoc-20011119- ethtool-3- f2c-20031026- fedora-release-4- fonts-ISO8859-2- gimp-help-2- gl-117- Glide3-20050815- Glide3-devel-20050815- imap-libs-2004- iozone-3- iputils-20020927- jal-20031117- jing-20030619- jing-demo-20030619- jing-javadoc-20030619- ksh-20050202- less-382- livna-release-4- nss_ldap-239- pam_ccreds-1- perl-Tidy-20031021- perltidy-20031021- procinfo-18- rpm-macros-rpmforge-0- tetex-unicode-0- udev-063- vrfy-990522- wireless-tools-28- xemacs-sumo-20050715- xemacs-sumo-el-20050715- xemacs-sumo-info-20050715- xen-2- xmltex-20020625- xt-dash-javadoc-20020426- xterm-200-
