I want to get the filename (without extension) and the extension separately.
The best solution I found so far is:
NAME=`echo "$FILE" | cut -d'.' -f1` EXTENSION=`echo "$FILE" | cut -d'.' -f2`
This is wrong because it doesn't work if the file name contains multiple . characters. If, let's say, I have a.b.js, it will consider a and b.js, instead of a.b and js.
It can be easily done in Python with
file, ext = os.path.splitext(path)
but I'd prefer not to fire up a Python interpreter just for this, if possible.
Any better ideas?
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