I've got the following line:
wc -l ./*.txt | sort -rn
i want to cut the file extension. So with this code i've got the output: number filename.txt
for all my .txt-files in the .-directory. But I want the output without the file-extension, like this: number filename
I tried a pipe with cut for different kinds of parameter, but all i got was to cut the whole filename with this command.
wc -l ./*.txt | sort -rn | cut -f 1 -d '.'
Assuming you don't have newlines in your filename you can use sed to strip out ending .txt:
wc -l ./*.txt | sort -rn | sed 's/\.txt$//'