[Klug-general] auto-delete menu entries as part of a bash script

[James Morris]

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single line, making sure there's a space character where the line is
split... ie there must be a space after the forward-slash-one and
before hyphen-root).


On 25 November 2013 18:11, Sharon Kimble <boudiccas at talktalk.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Nov 2013 17:22:46 +0000
> James Morris <jwm.art.net at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Thanks for this James, this is what I tried.
>
>> You can use sed with a regular expression:
>> sed  '\|\[exec[]]\s[(]\(.*\)[)]\s[{]/usr/lib/xscreensaver/\1
>> -root[}]|d' path/to/menufile
>
> sed  '\|\[exec[]]\s[(]\(.*\)[)]\s[{]/usr/lib/xscreensaver/\1
>> -root[}]|d' /home/boudiccas/.fluxbox/menu
> sed: -e expression #1, char 54: unterminated address regex
>
> And that is what it replied.
>
> Thanks
> Sharon.
>
>>
>> the above command output the menufile to stdout minus matching lines,
>> it assumes no variation in spaces between the { and } characters from
>> the example you showed.
>>
>> once you have confirmed that it works and is not removing lines which
>> you do not wish removed, pass the -i option for it to edit the file
>> proper.
>>
>> i've tested it in debian, using the following file:
>>
>> ----8<--------8<--------8<--------8<--------8<----
>>
>> [begin] (Fluxbox 1.3.5)
>> [encoding] {UTF-8}
>>       [exec] (xterm) {xterm}
>>       [exec] (firefox) {firefox}
>>       [exec]   (Run) {fbrun}
>> [submenu] (Terminals)
>>       [exec]   (xterm) {xterm}
>> [end]
>>
>>
>> [exec] (foobar) {/usr/lib/xscreensaver/foobar -root}
>> [exec]  (foobar1) {/usr/lib/xscreensaver/foobar1 -root}
>> [exec] (foobar)   { /usr/lib/xscreensaver/foobar -root }
>> [exec] (fooba3r)  {/usr/lib/xscreensaver/fooba3r  -root }
>> [exec] (bar) {/usr/lib/xscreensaver/bar -root}
>> [exec] (barf) {/usr/lib/xscreensaver/barf -root}
>>
>> ----8<--------8<--------8<--------8<--------8<----
>>
>> note it won't remove the menu entries with the extra spaces between
>> { }.
>>
>> james.
>>
>> On 25 November 2013 16:08, Sharon Kimble <boudiccas at talktalk.net>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > I want to delete menu commands that are in the form of -
>> >
>> > [exec] (foobar) {/usr/lib/xscreensaver/foobar -root}
>> >
>> > and there are 50+ commands to be deleted as part of a bash-script.
>> > But, how do I do it please? I need some form of commands that I can
>> > put into my menu generation script, which will auto-delete them in
>> > the future. Can anyone help please?
>> >
>> > Thanks
>> > Sharon.
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