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Cut using delimiter as number for a string in shell

a="abc-ABC-3.2-def"

For the above mentioned variable, I need to cut so that i get all the string before occurrence of number.

Output expected after cut is, 

 abc-ABC-

The number can be anything, Please help.

Solution 
  • echo $a | awk '{print $1}' FS=[0-9]