#!/bin/sh

# remove_suffix
# Removes the suffix (from the last dot until the end of the string)
# from each of the strings passed, one per line, via STDIN
# Cameron Hayne (macdev@hayne.net)  March 2005

# Example of use:
# echo "foo.bar.txt" | remove_suffix
# will output "foo.bar" (without the quotes)

sed 's/\.[^.]*$//'

# Note that if you have a variable "file" containing a string like the above,
# then you can use the Bash pattern-matching feature to get the portion
# before the suffix:  ${file%\.[^.]*}