[lug] quick sed question

[John Hernandez]

sed -e 's/.*\.\(.*\)-.*/\1/g'

charles at lunarmedia.net wrote:
> 
> is there a sed expression that can parse just 'chg' from the following:
> 
>         core1.chg-confg
> 
> and do it in one sed execution? the best i can do is:
> 
>         echo core1.chg-confg | sed -e 's/.*\.//g' | sed -e 's/-.*//g'
> 
> is there shorter way?
> 
> thanks -cjm
> 
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