That works GREAT!!! Thanks a ton! Is there a command line perl resource that you or anyone else knows of? Brock On 5/17/05, Steven Cayford <strayf at freeshell.org> wrote: > On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 08:29:59PM -0500, Brock Noland wrote: > > I have a script which needs the extension of a file. The problem I am > > having is how do I get the chars at the end of a filename after the > > LAST period? > > [...] > > Any ideas? > > How about... > > ls | perl -p -e 's/^.*\.(.*)$/$1/' > > except if there's no extension. > > -Steve > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >