19 Oct
2001
19 Oct
'01
19:41
Try this: cat /tmp/packagelist | while read fver ; do name=${fver%-[0-9\.]*-*} echo $name done > /tmp/namelist It'll work with packages like name-subname-N.N.N.N-xyz. ^ ^ | |--- release number |--------- version number Packages with weird version numbers will not be filtered right. Rafael