extract string within parentheses

[Jerry3904]

<I did a web search on this but solutions I found didn't seem to work>

Now looking at an easier way to do MXFB menu translations that begins by extracting the "name" within parentheses from one file and lists them in another. For instance, this submenu:

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    [submenu] (Docks)
        [exec] (Default) {~/.fluxbox/scripts/DefaultDock.mxdk}
        [exec] (Tint2) {mxfb-tint2-manager}
        [separator]
        [exec] (Dockmaker) {mx-dockmaker}
    [end]

...would produce this:

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Docks
Default
Tint2
Dockmaker\

It would be even better if I could list 4 files in a single command, but they are short enough that it isn't necessary.

Thanks for any help.

[Jerry3904]

Did we do this before?

[Jerry3904]

Wait a minute, this seems to work:

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sed -E -n 's/.*\((.*)\).*$/\1/p' file1 file2

It does pick up the language codes in settings, but those are easy to spot and remove

Source: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/544 ... x-terminal

[dolphin_oracle]

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grep -oP '\(\K[^)]+' inputfile > outputfile

[Jerry3904]

Thanks.

[i_ri]

Hello Jerry3904 and dolphin_oracle
mxfb-menu-gen places a space between name end and paren,
so the list of names each has a space at the end.
Is that okay for the intended list?
A submenu name has not a space at the end, usually.
is that okay for your purpose?

The outputfile can grep for the space[last] will ignore the submenu names that have no space at the end. (?) if there is a use for this distinction?
or you may wish take that space off the end(?)

(trying to say, avoid reuse of this name list into menu-gen with list name having trailing space )
In /mxflux/menu-translations i do not see trailing spaces. however there is extra paren in out-of-sight_pt

[Jerry3904]

@i_ri Not sure ATM, will look later
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I ended up using this procedure for best results: group the 4 menus into a working location, open a terminal there, and run

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sed -E -n 's/.*\((.*)\).*$/\1/p' menu-mx appearance settings out-of-sight > menunames.txt

The grep command inserted the file name at the beginning of each line, otherwise the outputs were identical with 96 strings