${name:e}: File Extension

Extracts the file extension from a path.

It takes the last segment of the path and returns the string after the last . of this filename segment. If there is no . character or if the filename ends with ., then an empty string is returned.

Links

• The Z Shell Manual on modifiers

Examples

Extract file extension of a path

1 2	myPath="/home/user/work/data.csv" echo $myPath:e

Output:

1

csv