Your sed command looks like a winner. Thanks!
--- Vladimir
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Vladimir G. Ivanovic
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>>>>> "ph" == Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
ph>
ph> On Fri, 2005-09-02 at 12:46 -0700, Vladimir G. Ivanovic wrote:
>> 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).
ph>
ph> If you actually have the files, you can just use rpm to extract the name
ph> from the rpm file itself:
ph>
ph> $ rpm -qp --qf '%{NAME}' some.rpm
ph>
ph> This will work even if the rpm file has been renamed to something
ph> completely different.
ph>
ph> If you're just working from names, try this:
ph>
ph> sed 's/-[^-]*-[^-]*$//' /var/log/rpmpkgs
ph>
ph> Paul.
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