Awesome.  Thanks.  Still not perfect but it helps a lot and without showing
you the entire file, you got very close.  This is good enough to help with
my exploration.  The best I had done was:

cat .local/share/applications/gconf-editor.desktop | grep -v [\[][^e]

Fun stuff, but I remember when I worked in a Unix shop I always went to Ron
or one of my gurus when I needed to do harder ones.  Dang I wish I was
better at this stuff.  Anyway, I do appreciate the help and admire your
talent :)

On 6/10/06, Jerry Davis <jdawgaz@cox.net> wrote:
>
> On Sat, 10 Jun 2006 13:28:57 -0700
> Dazed_75 <lthielster@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > There are files that seem to contain a lot of lines seemingly used to
> > display information suitable for many locales.  One example is
> > ~/.local/share/applications/gconf-editor.desktop.  These would be a
> > lot easier to explore if I could look at them and not see the lines
> > for locales other than my language.
> >
> > My thought was to do a cat foofile | grep regexpl where regexpl would
> > pass all lines having no [*] term unless it were [en*].
> > Unfortunately, I have forgotten much of what I once knew about
> > regular expressions.  I know I want to relearn, but not today.  A
> > little help please?
>
> you can do this:
>
> awk '$0 !~ /\[/ { print $0 }; $0 ~ /\[en/ { print $0 }' /path/to/file
>
>
> >
> > --
> > "The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when
> > the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them."
> >
> > Patrick Henry quote
>
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"The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the
transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them."

Patrick Henry quote