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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