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awk command to find in files looking different.

Answer 1

+2 A:

Since you're using equals, not space, as the field separator, $1 is actually " Icon" with a leading space. Try

awk -F= '$1==" Icon" {print $2}'

on your file, and you'll see that the file having numbers in its name is really irrelevant.

Alex Martelli 2010-09-11 23:43:07

Thanks! That did it ;)

AlMehdi 2010-09-11 23:45:58

hmm.. but now doesn't my other work. like "fapman.desktop". It has the same line "Icon=fapman".

AlMehdi 2010-09-11 23:47:22

@AlMehdi, if one value has a leading space and the other one doesn't, then you can't use `==` to compare them both to the same string! Don't focus on the filename, highlighted in this Q's very-wrong title, which is irrelevant. Use RE-matching or other ways to check instead.

Alex Martelli 2010-09-12 02:36:07

@Alex Martelli: ghostdog74 solution worked so i am using that. And true.. i will change the topic.

AlMehdi 2010-09-12 13:41:28

Answer 2

+1 A:

If some of your files have leading whitespace on each line and some don't, this regex match may help:

awk -F= '$1 ~ " *Icon" {print $2}'

Dennis Williamson 2010-09-12 00:09:33

Thanks again Dennis! This worked perfect.

AlMehdi 2010-09-12 00:16:40

@dennis-williamson: It did work in terminal but when i do it in the script. It doesn't find all. Before it just missed the "dropn900" but now it misses five incl. the "dropn900".

AlMehdi 2010-09-12 00:38:04

@Dennis Williamson: Maybe cause it finds to much.. it gets all the lines with "Icon" in it. Edit my post.

AlMehdi 2010-09-12 00:43:32

Answer 3

+2 A:

awk -F= '$1~/^ *Icon/ {print $2}' file

ghostdog74 2010-09-12 01:14:33

@ghostdog74: Thanks but it did not work on "fapman" cause it doesn't have leading space.

AlMehdi 2010-09-12 01:24:38

Sorry.. forgot the '*'.. now it might work. But i am not sure it is always the first "Icon" that is correct. That the '^' indicates.

AlMehdi 2010-09-12 01:29:18

Strange.. now "fapman" gives the correct output in terminal. But don't show when i run it in the script. It's only "fapman" that don't show up of 13.

AlMehdi 2010-09-12 01:32:57

My fault.. i went back and checked it more. It finds "fapman" as it should. I found out that this particular icon was in another folder. This is the one that worked for me.

AlMehdi 2010-09-12 02:25:22

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