Shell Programming and Scripting

So i have a file which contains paths to JPG images separated by a space.
I have to separate them each path to another file. So, I have to search all strings that start from /home/ and ends with .jpg or .png
Then write each one to another file...

Can you please help me on doing this???

One way:

Code:

awk '/^\/home\/.*.jpg/ || /^\/home\/.*.png/' file > newfile

Without sample data it is hard to produce anything... but try this:

Code:

cat file1 | tr " " "\n" | awk '/^\/home\/.+\.(jpg)|(png)/' > file2

Thanks for your replies. Bartus11's solution is more useful. It writes every path to a file separated by endline
Cool

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Another problem was created. Some Dirs have spaces (e.g. Hello all), and i have made another script that in every (space)a-z,A-Z convert it to \(space)a-z,A-Z

Unfortunately, both of your solutions don't work correctly in case one of the image's paths does have spaces.. :/

In that case you can try this without cat and tr:

Code:

awk '/^\/home\/.*.(jpg|png)/' RS=" " file > newfile

Franklin52 --> Now the problem is other. Read my last post for details

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