Need some grep RE help

[Jerry Davis]

On Sat, 10 Jun 2006 13:28:57 -0700
Dazed_75 <lthielster at 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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