From the the Vifm wiki and using xclip, they show how to copy the filename of a selected file:
nnoremap yn :!echo -n %c | xclip -selection clipboard %i<cr>:echo expand('%"c') "is yanked to clipboard"<cr>
But it copies it with the extension, how can I copy the name of a file without it's extension to the clipboard?
Use sed to remove everything after and including the first dot:
:nnoremap yn :!sed "s/\..*//"<<<%c|xclip -selection clipboard %i<cr>
If your shell does not support herestrings (<<<), use printf
(Why is printf better than echo?) to pipe into sed:
:nnoremap yn :!printf '%%s' %c|sed "s/\..*//"|xclip -selection clipboard %i<cr>
Vifm processes the macros before passing the
command to the shell. %c becomes the file name (properly escaped);
%s would also be substituted, thus %%s is needed so that
printf gets a %s. Likewise, <cr> is the "Enter
equivalent" and is required, otherwise the command whole simply
pops up in the command-line.
This has been tested. Even the exquisitely named file
t*.a .<!e>& passed the test, the clipboard gets t*.
If you want to remove everything after and including the last
dot (not the first), use sed "s/\.[^.]*$//".
To display the copied string in the statusbar, repeat the command up to sed
and use the %S macro.
:nnoremap yn :!printf '%%s' %c|sed "s/\..*//"|xclip -selection clipboard %i<cr>:!printf '%%s' %c|sed "s/\..*//;s/$/ is yanked to clipboard/" %S<cr>
basenametool to remove them (or at least what looks like one). – ctrl-alt-delor Aug 06 '20 at 14:51<and>have special meaning in the shell. You will get some very unexpected behavior. – ctrl-alt-delor Aug 06 '20 at 14:52basenameman page: "Print NAME with any leading directory components removed. If specified, also remove a trailing SUFFIX." – ctrl-alt-delor Aug 06 '20 at 15:49basename "$(basename "$fileName" .sh)" .txt— OK this dose not scale to any "extension". — usesed. – ctrl-alt-delor Aug 06 '20 at 19:51