On Fri, 2007-07-13 at 06:23 -0700, Don Russell wrote: > I need to determine where the package name ends, and the > version/release > begins: > Ref your example: vim-debuginfo-7.1.12-1.fc7.i386.rpm Numbers after a dash? -- [tim@bigblack ~]$ rm -rfd /*^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Huname -ipr 2.6.21-1.3228.fc7 i686 i386 Using FC 4, 5, 6 & 7, plus CentOS 5. Today, it's FC7. Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.