Need some grep RE help

[Jerry Davis]

On Sat, 10 Jun 2006 14:14:50 -0700
Dazed_75 <lthielster at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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 at cox.net> wrote:
> >
> > 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

ok, how about this?

awk '$0 !~ /[^[].*\[/ { print $0 }; $0 ~ /\[en/ { print $0 }' file



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