diff --git a/doc/src/Developer_utils.rst b/doc/src/Developer_utils.rst
index b92d817d87..9c2c6f1d0c 100644
--- a/doc/src/Developer_utils.rst
+++ b/doc/src/Developer_utils.rst
@@ -133,6 +133,9 @@ and parsing files or arguments.
 .. doxygenfunction:: trim_comment
    :project: progguide
 
+.. doxygenfunction:: strip_style_suffix
+   :project: progguide
+
 .. doxygenfunction:: star_subst
    :project: progguide
 
diff --git a/src/utils.cpp b/src/utils.cpp
index ab9791c715..30a47f3263 100644
--- a/src/utils.cpp
+++ b/src/utils.cpp
@@ -866,6 +866,30 @@ std::string utils::star_subst(const std::string &name, bigint step, int pad)
   return fmt::format("{}{:0{}}{}", name.substr(0, star), step, pad, name.substr(star + 1));
 }
 
+
+/* ----------------------------------------------------------------------
+   Remove accelerator style suffix from string
+------------------------------------------------------------------------- */
+std::string utils::strip_style_suffix(const std::string &style, LAMMPS *lmp)
+{
+  std::string newstyle = style;
+  if (lmp->suffix_enable) {
+    if (lmp->suffix) {
+      if (utils::strmatch(style, fmt::format("/{}$", lmp->suffix))) {
+        newstyle.resize(style.size() - strlen(lmp->suffix) - 1);
+        return newstyle;
+      }
+    }
+    if (lmp->suffix2) {
+      if (utils::strmatch(style, fmt::format("/{}$", lmp->suffix2))) {
+        newstyle.resize(style.size() - strlen(lmp->suffix2) - 1);
+        return newstyle;
+      }
+    }
+  }
+  return newstyle;
+}
+
 /* ----------------------------------------------------------------------
    Replace UTF-8 encoded chars with known ASCII equivalents
 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- */
diff --git a/src/utils.h b/src/utils.h
index 52ada7c8cc..048de17998 100644
--- a/src/utils.h
+++ b/src/utils.h
@@ -430,7 +430,23 @@ namespace utils {
 
   std::string star_subst(const std::string &name, bigint step, int pad);
 
-  /*! Check if a string will likely have UTF-8 encoded characters
+  /*! Remove style suffix from string if suffix flag is active
+   *
+   *
+\verbatim embed:rst
+
+This will try to undo the effect from using the :doc:`suffix command <suffix>`
+or the *-suffix/-sf* command line flag and return correspondingly modified string.
+
+\endverbatim
+   *
+   * \param style  string of style name
+   * \param lmp    pointer to the LAMMPS class (has suffix_flag and suffix strings)
+   * \return  processed string */
+
+  std::string strip_style_suffix(const std::string &style, LAMMPS *lmp);
+
+/*! Check if a string will likely have UTF-8 encoded characters
    *
    * UTF-8 uses the 7-bit standard ASCII table for the first 127 characters and
    * all other characters are encoded as multiple bytes.  For the multi-byte
diff --git a/unittest/commands/test_simple_commands.cpp b/unittest/commands/test_simple_commands.cpp
index ade8f85275..db6ee3c1e7 100644
--- a/unittest/commands/test_simple_commands.cpp
+++ b/unittest/commands/test_simple_commands.cpp
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
 #include "input.h"
 #include "output.h"
 #include "update.h"
+#include "utils.h"
 #include "variable.h"
 
 #include "../testing/core.h"
@@ -265,14 +266,22 @@ TEST_F(SimpleCommandsTest, Suffix)
 
     BEGIN_HIDE_OUTPUT();
     command("suffix one");
+    command("suffix yes");
     END_HIDE_OUTPUT();
     ASSERT_THAT(lmp->suffix, StrEq("one"));
+    ASSERT_EQ(lmp->suffix_enable, 1);
+    ASSERT_THAT(utils::strip_style_suffix("one/four", lmp), StrEq("one/four"));
+    ASSERT_THAT(utils::strip_style_suffix("four/one", lmp), StrEq("four"));
 
     BEGIN_HIDE_OUTPUT();
     command("suffix hybrid two three");
     END_HIDE_OUTPUT();
     ASSERT_THAT(lmp->suffix, StrEq("two"));
     ASSERT_THAT(lmp->suffix2, StrEq("three"));
+    ASSERT_THAT(utils::strip_style_suffix("one/four", lmp), StrEq("one/four"));
+    ASSERT_THAT(utils::strip_style_suffix("one/two", lmp), StrEq("one"));
+    ASSERT_THAT(utils::strip_style_suffix("one/three", lmp), StrEq("one"));
+    ASSERT_THAT(utils::strip_style_suffix("four/one", lmp), StrEq("four/one"));
 
     BEGIN_HIDE_OUTPUT();
     command("suffix four");
@@ -284,11 +293,13 @@ TEST_F(SimpleCommandsTest, Suffix)
     command("suffix off");
     END_HIDE_OUTPUT();
     ASSERT_EQ(lmp->suffix_enable, 0);
+    ASSERT_THAT(utils::strip_style_suffix("one/four", lmp), StrEq("one/four"));
 
     BEGIN_HIDE_OUTPUT();
     command("suffix yes");
     END_HIDE_OUTPUT();
     ASSERT_EQ(lmp->suffix_enable, 1);
+    ASSERT_THAT(utils::strip_style_suffix("one/four", lmp), StrEq("one"));
 
     BEGIN_HIDE_OUTPUT();
     command("suffix no");