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n-tchen

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Registered: 2017-03-07

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[SOLVED] Filter pacman output on the basis of a file extension

Hello everybody,

I have a simple question where I wasn't able to find an working answer. I want to filter an pacman output for .desktop files, like e.g.

pacman -Ql mathematica

I tried a couple of different version (with some options) like

pacman -Ql mathematica | grep ".desktop"

but best case it output also every file which has "desktop" in its path - but i only want the files with an .desktop extension. Maybe someone can help me?

Thanks in advance
Markus

Last edited by n-tchen (2017-11-07 13:47:05)

Allan

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Re: [SOLVED] Filter pacman output on the basis of a file extension

pacman -Ql | grep "\.desktop$"

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jasonwryan

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Re: [SOLVED] Filter pacman output on the basis of a file extension

grep -E "*.desktop"

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n-tchen

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Registered: 2017-03-07

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Re: [SOLVED] Filter pacman output on the basis of a file extension

Thanks for your fast replys. Allan's version works as I wanted it. Thank you very much!

I tried jasonwryan's version already beforehands - this variant also gave me all files with "desktop" in the path, not only those with .desktop as extension. But thanks anyway!

Markus

PS: Can I set the topic to answered, or does a mod need to do that?
PPS: I think i got it - I just added [SOLVED] to the topic

Last edited by n-tchen (2017-11-07 13:47:52)