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edited Jan 17, 2018 at 16:47

If you also want to allow empty extensions, this is the shortest I could come up with:

echo 'hello.txt' | sed -r 's/.+\.(.+)|.*/\1/' # EXTENSION
echo 'hello.txt' | sed -r 's/(.+)\..+|(.*)/\1\2/' # FILENAME

1st line explained: It matches PATH.EXT or ANYTHING and replaces it with EXT. If ANYTHING was matched, the ext group is not captured.

If you also want to allow empty extensions, this is the shortest I could come up with:

sed -r 's/.+\.(.+)|.*/\1/' # EXTENSION
sed -r 's/(.+)\..+|(.*)/\1\2/' # FILENAME

1st line explained: It matches PATH.EXT or ANYTHING and replaces it with EXT. If ANYTHING was matched, the ext group is not captured.

If you also want to allow empty extensions, this is the shortest I could come up with:

echo 'hello.txt' | sed -r 's/.+\.(.+)|.*/\1/' # EXTENSION
echo 'hello.txt' | sed -r 's/(.+)\..+|(.*)/\1\2/' # FILENAME

1st line explained: It matches PATH.EXT or ANYTHING and replaces it with EXT. If ANYTHING was matched, the ext group is not captured.

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answered Sep 16, 2017 at 4:41

phil294

If you also want to allow empty extensions, this is the shortest I could come up with:

sed -r 's/.+\.(.+)|.*/\1/' # EXTENSION
sed -r 's/(.+)\..+|(.*)/\1\2/' # FILENAME

1st line explained: It matches PATH.EXT or ANYTHING and replaces it with EXT. If ANYTHING was matched, the ext group is not captured.