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# 8  
Old 08-19-2010
Well the paths are like this:
/home/$USER/Pictures/Nice\ Pictures/bla.jpg

I mean that have a backslash before every space.
:/
# 9  
Old 08-19-2010
You can give this a try:
Code:
awk '{gsub("\\\ ","#");print}' file| awk '/^\/home\/.*.(jpg|png)/{gsub("#"," ");print}' RS=" " > newfile

# 10  
Old 08-19-2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by Franklin52
If you have a lines like:
Code:
/home/my.jpg /home/me and you.png Hello all.jpg This is a file And another file /home/a file.txt

then you don't have another problem but a serious problem IMHO Smilie
Your solution doesn't seem to work at all...
Code:
alex@MaD-pc:~$ cat test
/home/my.jpg /home/me and you.png Hello all.jpg This is a file And another file /home/a file.txt
alex@MaD-pc:~$ cat test2

alex@MaD-pc:~$ awk '/^\/home\/.*.(jpg|png)/' RS=" " test > test2
alex@MaD-pc:~$ cat test2
/home/my.jpg
alex@MaD-pc:~$

# 11  
Old 08-19-2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by hakermania
Well the paths are like this:
/home/$USER/Pictures/Nice\ Pictures/bla.jpg

I mean that have a backslash before every space.
:/
Then the line in your file should be like:
Code:
/home/my.jpg /home/me\ and\ you.png Hello\ all.jpg This\ is\ a\ file And\ another\ file /home/a\ file.txt

# 12  
Old 08-19-2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by Franklin52
You can give this a try:
Code:
awk '{gsub("\\\ ","#");print}' file| awk '/^\/home\/.*.(jpg|png)/{gsub("#"," ");print}' RS=" " > newfile

This shows a warning
Code:
awk: warning: escape sequence `\ ' treated as plain ` '

and then does nothing.....Just copies the contents of file to newfile

---------- Post updated at 10:04 AM ---------- Previous update was at 08:29 AM ----------

Anyway. I found a solution....
In the C++ program, for them who know QtCreator, i had a QStringLIst and I did join("\n")
instead of join(" ") and the problem was solved. Thx anyway!
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