On Friday 02 September 2005 15:00, Jerry Geis wrote: > I am trying to use cut to tell me the suffix of a file. > for example: echo /home/silentm/log/file.machine.log | cut -d . -f 1- > Bad to use but it would be 3-, not 1- > I was expecting to get .log or log but I get the entire string echoed back. > > doing the opposite gave me what I expected: > echo /home/silentm/log/file.machine.log | cut -d . -f 1 > gives me > /home/silentm/log/file > > I am trying to find a way to test if the file ends in .log? > > How might I do that. > > Thanks, > > Jerry > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- John Allen, mailto:john.allen at dublinux.net MandrakeClub Silver Member. http://www.dublinux.net Site of the day: http://www.kde.ie/ Mandrakelinux release 10.2 (Cooker) for i586, kernel 2.6.11-6mdk 21:35:23 up 1:18, 3 users, load average: 0.02, 0.07, 0.02